Pages from a mathematical textbook
- Adams/Box 23/23/10
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- 1819-1839 (Undated.)
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Covers compound addition, compound subtraction, annuities at compound interest, of the purchasing of freehold estates.
Pages from a mathematical textbook
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Covers compound addition, compound subtraction, annuities at compound interest, of the purchasing of freehold estates.
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Various (000619)
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Congratulations on JCA's Senior Wranglership. Family news. Suggests JCA rest for a few weeks before beginning on the New Planet. Transcribes letter from Thomas Crick to JCA's parents.
Adams, George (b 1823) brother of J.C. Adams
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Acknowledgement of JCA's Smith's Prize Examination article "Essays" - on encouraging the general mathematical education of degree candidates.
Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Acknowledgement of receipt of photograph of JCA.
Archbold, R (fl 1890)
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Has sent JCA a paper on the pink appendages to the Sun [observed during Solar eclipse of 1851], for the RAS meeting and Monthly Notices.
Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) mathematician
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Indian tides. Merits of JCA's and GHD's different methods of calculation of equivalent multipliers. Has sent to Bond in India to see which they prefer.
Darwin, Sir George Howard (1845-1912) Knight, mathematician and geophysicist
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Intending to visit with son for whom he is seeking rooms.
Davys, George (1780-1864) Bishop of Peterborough
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Requests to know: how much the moon's period is increased by the force of the sun. For EBD's Astronomy without mathematics.
Beckett, Edmund (1816-1905) 1st Baron Grimthorpe, ecclesiastical controversialist, architect and horologist
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Written from 10 Downing St. That if JCA wishes to accept the offer [of post of Astronomer Royal] made by Gladstone in his letter, it should remain confidential until Royal approval has been obtained.
Godley, J (fl 1881)