Edward Knobel

Edward Ball Knobel (21 October 1841 – 25 July 1930) was an English businessman and amateur astronomer.

He started to study law but his love of geology made him change to the Government School of Mines (now part of Imperial College London) in 1861.

In 1862, he changed his career again, starting to work for Bass & Co. at Burton upon Trent as an analytical chemist in the brewery department.

He then prepared a new edition of the star catalogue in the Almagest using all available sources in Greek, Arabic and Latin.

After a long collaboration with C. H. F. Peters, a final collated version was published in 1915.