St John‘s College Personal Collections

Various notes

Adams/Box 42/13
Item
1946 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Notes on Adams, Le Verrier, Airy, Challis.

Smart, William Marshall (1889-1975) astronomer

Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart

Adams/Box 42/19/6
Item
13 Feb. 1948

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Comments on Smart's essay on JCA. Anecdotes of JCA and LeVerrier.

Chandrasethna, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995) astrophysicist

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/2/1
Item
26 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "Investigation of the rival claims of Adams and LeVerrier to the discovery of the new planet Astraea [sic]" from The Mechanics Magazine. Published under the pseudonym "Exoniensis". [Neptune]

Jerwood, James (1797-1877)

Typed copy of letter to J.R. Hind

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/7/1
Item
1 Nov. 1886

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Calculation of places of Jupiter and Saturn from LeVerrier's tables. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Typed copy of letter to J.R. Hind

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/7/3
Item
17 Feb. 1890

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Comparison of LeVerrier's and Bouvard's tables of Saturn. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Photograph of cartoon

Adams/Box 20/20/11/3
Item
1847 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Captioned "Decouverts nouvelles, caricatures par Cham". In L'illustration, journal universel. p456. [year not given] includes the caricature of Adams looking through telescope accross the channel at LeVerrier's notes. [Neptune]

de Noé, Charles Amédée (1818-1879) cartoonist

Notebook

Adams/Box 18/6
Item
Mar. 1854-Apr. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Astronomical notes, some dated Mar. 1854. "Comparison with Bouvard's Tables of Saturn with the formulae in the introduction." "Synoptic statement of the planetary masses employed by LeVerrier in various reseaches." "Mean motion & masses of the planets 8 Mar. 1854" "Calculation of the perturbations of Uranus by Neptune" "Calculation of the orbit of Comet 1856 from Cambridge Obsns. Apl. 1854".

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Le Figaro, 5 Aug. 1877

Adams/Box 43-44/Box 44/1/2
Item
5 Aug. 1877

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

With obituary of U.J.J. Le Verrier.

Le Figaro

Extract from 'Le National'

Adams/Box 33/15/fol.32-34
Item
8 Oct. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Unknown (000919)

Draft? autograph letter to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/17/2
Item
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

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