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Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/17/1
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9 Apr. 1860

See 36/18/1 for French translation. Acknowledgement of copies of CD's replies to LeVerrier's attacks on his theory of the moon. Nature of LeVerrier, Hansen's and Plana's errors. M. de Pontecoulant's letter in Monthly Notices of RAS. See 16/17/2 for another version of this letter.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/17/2
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9 Apr. 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Incomplete. See 16/17/1 for another draft of same letter. See 36/18/1 for French translation. Acknowledgement of copies of CD's replies to LeVerrier's attacks on his theory of the moon. Nature of LeVerrier, Hansen's and Plana's errors. M. de Pontecoulant's letter in Monthly Notices of RAS.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/17/2
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11 Jan. 1887

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Publication of Lunar comparisons. Transcribes letter from Mr. Marth on comparison of Hansen's with Greenwich Observations. Probably sent to JCA by WHMC: see 6/14/1.

Knobel, Edward Ball (1841-1930) chemist and astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/17/3
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6 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See 36/18/2 for French translation. Sends copies of reply to Pontecoulant, Plana etc: one for CD personally, one for the French Academy of Sciences.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/17/4
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6 Dec. 1864

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Has sent in paper on Jupiter's Mass. Has received paper from Hansen.

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

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/18/2
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4 July 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Letter of introduction for Pierce. Plana convinced of JCA's and CD's expression of the secular acceleration of moon's mean motion. Hansen and LeVerrier might yet be convinced.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/18/2
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30 Jan. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses (attached) transcript of letter of Hansen 18 Oct.1861 on Lunar acceleration. G.B.A. disagrees with J.C.A. on subject.

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

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/19/1
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21 Mar. 1861

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of copies sent by CD of investigation into Hansen's long inequalities and corrections of LeVerrier's Annales, and CD's volume on the Theory of the Moon. Praise of CD's method.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Typed copy of letter to S. Newcomb

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/20/2
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10 Feb. 1880

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Comments on comparison of Hansen and Delaunay's lunar tables. Suggesting co-operative work between British and American Nautical Almanac offices. MS note by Newcomb at end giving permission for confidential sections to be published. See also JCA's draft at 16/49/1). Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Typed copy of letter to S. Newcomb

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/21/1
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1 July 1880

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Congratulations on work on Hansen's tables. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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