Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
- Adams/Box 2/26/3
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- 15 July 1882
Part of Papers of John Couch Adams
Has received review of his Lunar Distance paper by G.D.E. Weyer of Kiel, pointing out the method already published by Legendre 75 years ago. Regrets that this knowledge would have saved the work of constructing the Cambridge Tables.
Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer