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A.L.s. from Edmond Halley to Dr John Arbuthnot, from Oxford

Miscellaneous/Box 9/HA1
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6 May 1711

Part of Miscellaneous Papers

Discusses Flamsteed's Star catalogue.

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/45/1
Item
30 July 1889

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Life of Halley by Rigaud.

Hooper, Richard (1821-1894)

Copies of papers

Adams/Box 27/11/1-3
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1872-1888 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Transcripts of documents described in the catalogue of the Portsmouth Papers.

Sect. VI. IV. Letters Newton to Flamsteed.

Sect. VI. VI. Letters Newton to Halley.

Sect. VI. VII Letters Halley to Newton.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Juvenile papers

Adams/Box 23/13/1-17
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1819-1839 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Notes and calculations on comets, mostly Halley's Comet.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Transcripts of correspondence with Robert Hooke and Edmund Halley

Adams/Box 27/6
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5 Mar. 1677-27 May 1686

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Hooke to Newton 24 Dec. 1677; N to H 5 Mar. 1677; 18 Dec. 1677; 28 Nov. 1679; N to Halley 27 May 1686; H to N 17 Jun. 1679; H's Statement of state of controversy between them. Presumably copied for the Newton MSS Syndicate.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician