Works About Sir George Biddell Airy
- A.G. Bennett. The True Founder of Point-Focal Lens Theory: George Biddell Airy. Optician, 150:395, 1965.
- J.A. Bennett. George Biddell Airy and Horology. Annals of Science, 37:269-285, 1980.
- Allan Chapman. George Biddell Airy, F.R.S (1801-1892). Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 46(1), January 1992.
- Charles Cotter. George Biddell Airy and his Mechanical Correction of the Magnetic Compass. Annals of Science, 33:263-274, 1976.
- Charles Cotter. The Early History of Ship Magnetism: The Airy-Scoresby Controversy. Annals of Science, 34:589-599, 1977.
- John Levene. Sir George Biddell Airy, FRS(1801-92) and the Discovery and Correction of Astigmatism. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 21:180-99, 1966.
- Alexander Macfarlane. George Biddle Airy. In Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nienteenth Century. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1919.
- EJR Routh. Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, LI:i-xxi, 1892.
- Robert Smith. The Cambridge network in action: the discovery of Neptune. Isis, 80:395-422, September 1989.
- -- George Airy. Nature, October 31 1878.