St John‘s College Personal Collections

Correspondence between J.C. Adams and Sir George Biddell Airy

Adams/Box 2
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5 Nov. 1845-12 June 1888

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Adams/Box 2/1/1
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5 Nov. 1845

Thanks for paper on perturbations of Uranus, left some days since. Query: do assumed perturbations explain error of radius vector of Uranus.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/10/1
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27 Mar. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Has written to Hansen to pass on information. Query of point in J.C.A's paper on the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/10/2
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19 Apr. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Motion of the moon. Quotes letter from Hansen on formulae he used. Requests further information on effects of one planet on motion of another.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/10/3
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25 Nov. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sends paper from Encke. Asks if J.C.A. has studied Hansen's solar tables, as he wants them back.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/10/4
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1 Dec. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

On return of copy of Hansen's tables. On Challis's state of mind

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/11/1
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21 Apr. 1855

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Asking J.C.A. to meet M. & Mme. LeVerrier off train in Cambridge.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/11/2
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24 Oct. 1855

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

J.C.A. to examine some financial calcuations (for R.G.O. equipment?)

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/11/3
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5 Nov. 1855

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Thanks for comments in last. Further discussion and queries on mountings for some piece of R.G.O. equipment.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/12/1
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5 May 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Plana's corrections to J.C.A's Secular Equation of the Moon's Longitude.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

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