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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 7/23/2
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11 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

J.C.A. paper on the moon: Pontecoulant and Plana controversy. LeVerrier's part in.

Gibbons, George Buckmaster (d 1884)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/8/2
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9 May 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

On the illogicality of those who oppose JCA's work on the Moon. Plana & Pontecoulant.

de Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/7/2
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12 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Plana/Pontecoulant controversy. The Astronomer Royal.

Haydon, Frank Scott (1822-1887) record scholar

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/42/3
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6 Apr. 1858

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

The moon. Work completed by Delaunay. Seeks papers by JWL. JWL seeks corrections by JCA to paper of Plana to send.

Lubbock, Sir John William (1803-1865) 3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 7/23/1
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7 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

J.C.A. paper on the moon: Pontecoulant and Plana controversy.

Gibbons, George Buckmaster (d 1884)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/7/3
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11 Oct. 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Plana/Pontecoulant controversy. Relevant passage from C14 source.

Haydon, Frank Scott (1822-1887) record scholar

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/43/5
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16 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Hansen's prize [from the Admiralty for work on the moon]. Secular inequality of the Moon's mean motion: Plana.

Lubbock, Sir John William (1803-1865) 3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 10/44/1
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22 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Tables of moon. Delaunay. Secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion: letters of Plana. Letters of Airy and Whewell to return to JWL.

Lubbock, Sir John William (1803-1865) 3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker

Copy of autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/19/3
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1 Apr. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Another copy of 16/19/2. Authorisation for CD to publish JCA's expression of coefficient of principal term of the latitude [of the moon?]. Adds equation for principal inequality of the true latitude, and comparisons with Plana and Pontecoulant's results.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.W. Lubbock

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/15/3
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10 Apr. 1856

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Plana's letter; motion of the moon. JCA's defence. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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