Janus: Papers of John Couch Adams

St John's Library/Adams/Box 1 contains:
<-- See earlier
3/1	Typescript extract from letter to J.M. Wordie
3/2	Typescript letter signed to F.P. White
3/3	Typescript letter signed to W.M. Smart
3/4	Autograph letter signed to F.P. White
3/5	Autograph letter signed to F.P. White
3/6	Autograph letter signed to F.P. White
4/1	Autograph letter to J.C. Adams
4/2	Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
5	Unidentified scraps, mostly enclosures which have become separated from their letters
6	Manuscript copies of two propositions regarding Neptune
portfolio	Photographs of Newton MSS made for J.C. Adams in 1884

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Papers of John Couch Adams

Title	Manuscript copies of two propositions regarding Neptune
Reference	1/6
Creator	Unknown
Covering Dates	1847 (Undated.)
Extent and Medium	9p; paper

Content and context

'Proposition I. The planet Neptune accounts for the previously unexplained irregularities in the motions of Uranus so perfectly that Uranus no longer indicates the probable existence of an unknown external planet or of any error in the mass of Saturn. Proposition II. Neptune is not the planet which was predicted by geometry.'

Possibly connected with the attacks by Peirce, Babinet and others on the veracity of Adams's and LeVerrier's results. Probably originally sent to Adams enclosed with a letter.

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