St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 34/5/fol.78-79
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10 Apr. 1851

Publication of planetary tables and theories as national project. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/9/fol.106-107
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8 May 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Secular variation of the moon's mean motion. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/10/fol.117
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16 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/11/fol.122-123
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17 June 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/14/1
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15 Oct. 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 2/33/1
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15 Oct. 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Explanation of how G.B.A. has misunderstood Delaunay's lunar formula. Agrees about stability of solar system. Would like to see model of transit of Venus.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy