John Ellard Gore (1845-1910),Irish astronomer and science populariser. Gore was trained as an engineer and in 1868 travelled to the Punjab,India to assist with the construction of a canal. He spent his spare time observing the stars. His detailed studies,which concentrated on double and variable stars,were remarkable given that he never had a large telescope and made most of his observations with binoculars. When he returned to Ireland in 1879,he wrote several books on cosmology,speculating about the nature and origins of the universe | |
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