Airy pensiun pada 1881, tinggal dengan dua putrinya yang telah menikah di Croom's Hill dekat Greenwich. Pada 1891, ia jatuh dan mengalami luka dalam. Ia hanya bertahan selama beberapa hari. Airy dan istrinya dan tiga anak pra-anumertanya dimakamkan di Gereja St. Maria di Playford, Suffolk.[5]
Daftar pustaka
Karya Airy
Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich (Full text at Popular Astronomy.)
A complete list of Airy's 518 printed papers is in Airy (1896). Among the most important are:
Airy, G. B. (1826) Mathematical Tracts on Physical Astronomy;
(1828) On the Lunar Theory, The Figure of the Earth, Precession and Nutation, and Calculus of Variations, to which, in the second edition of 1828, were added tracts on the Planetary Theory and the Undulatory Theory of Light;
(1839) Experiments on Iron-built Ships, instituted for the purpose of discovering a correction for the deviation of the Compass produced-by the Iron of the Ships; and
(1861) On the Algebraic and Numerical Theory of Errors of Observations and the Combination of Observations.
Satterthwaite, G. E. (2003). "Airy's zenith telescopes and "the Birth-Star of Modern Astronomy"". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. James Cook University. 6 (1): 13. Bibcode:2003JAHH....6...13S.
Winterburn, E. (2002). "The Airy Transit Circle". British History – Victorians. BBC. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2008-07-18. Diakses tanggal 9 September 2007.
^Goward, K.J. (2005). "G B Airy's Country Retreat". Institute of Astronomy. University of Cambridge. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2007-08-07. Diakses tanggal 9 September 2007.
^ abGoward, Kenneth J (2006). "Founding of Orwell Park Observatory". Institute of Astronomy. University of Cambridge. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2007-11-15. Diakses tanggal 16 December 2007.
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