St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 6/66/3
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19 Jan. 1866

In French. Comments on paper sent. Comments on J.C.A. and Leverrier. Slip for or by D. Macalister in connection with biography.

Delaunay, Charles-Eugène (1816-1872) astronomer and mathematician

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

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 5-15/Box 7/23/3
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13 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 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)

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/18/1
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9 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See 36/18/3 for French translation. Acknowledgement of CD's calculation of secular acceleration of moon's mean motion by Poisson's method. Thinking of sending four different methods of calculation of same for inclusion in Nautical Almanac. Pontecoulant unlikely to be persuaded of JCA's and CD's method. LeVerrier likely to come to unpleasant discovery of the truth.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

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

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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 6/65/1
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5 Apr. 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

In French. LeVerrier: unvarnished opinion.

Delaunay, Charles-Eugène (1816-1872) astronomer and mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/11/1
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21 Apr. 1855

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Asking J.C.A. to meet M. & Mme. LeVerrier off train in Cambridge.

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

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