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Title	John Herschel to William Whewell
Reference	207/70
Covering Dates	29 Dec 1846
Extent and Medium	1 doc

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JH gives his reasons why WW should not, as has been reported, pledge such a strong declaration of support for John C Adams's and the 'discovery' of Neptune over [Urbain J. J.] Leverrier: If the results of the latter had not 'appeared I think it by no means improbabale that Challis might actually never have turned a telescope to the heavens in search of it at all'.

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