Janus: Papers of John Couch Adams

St John's Library/Adams contains:
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Box 3	Letters from Francis Bashforth and others to J.C. Adams
Box 4	Letters from J.C. Adams, and some from Eliza Adams, to Francis Bashforth
Box 5-15	Correspondence received by J.C. Adams, A-Z by author
Box 16	Adams's own drafts and copies of correspondence sent
Box 17	Adams's undergraduate notebooks and notebooks used by him when teaching
Box 18	Adams's research notebooks on astronomical subjects
Box 19	Adams's research on astronomical and mathematical subjects (loose papers)
Box 20	Adams's early diaries, papers relating to University administration, general memorabilia
Box 21	Adams's diaries
Box 22	Eliza Adams's diaries
Box 23	Juvenilia
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Papers of John Couch Adams

Title	Adams's research notebooks on astronomical subjects
Reference	Box 18
Creator	John Couch Adams, 1819-1892
Covering Dates	1846–1856
Extent and Medium	9 notebooks; paper

Index Terms

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

St John's Library/Adams/Box 18 contains:

Notebook. Astronomical notes, undated (but worked before Neptune so named). Calculations connected with Neptune: begins "1846. Calculation of Latitudes & Longitudes of the New Planet Aug. 4... Septr. 23... Septr. 28...".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
46 leaves; paper.

1846

Notebook. Astronomical notes, undated. Including: "Calculations of the errors of Bouvard's Tables in Heliocentric Longitude deduced from the Greenwich Observations 1750-1830" "Calcns. of Geoc. Places of Neptune 1848-9" "NPD of Neptune 1846-47" etc.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
94 leaves; paper.

1849

Notebook. Astronomical notes. Dated in front by JCA. Including "Bessel on Satellites" "Aberration of Planets & Comets" "To find corrections to be applied to mean elements of the orbits of Jupiter & Saturn in 1847" "Calculations respecting the Satellites of Uranus".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
175p; paper.

1 Feb. 1848

Notebook. Astronomical notes. Including: "Calculations of the perturbations of Neptune by the action of Jupiter, Saturn & Uranus by the method of mechanical quadratures ". On loose sheets of paper at back: "On the planet Neptune" [account of the discovery, not in JCA's Collected Papers].
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
78 leaves, 14p enclosures; paper.

Sep. 1848-Oct. 1851

Notebook. Astronomical notes, dated Nov.1849. "Calculations respecting the Errors of Leidenau's Elements of Venus".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
20 leaves used; paper.

Nov. 1849

Notebook. 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".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
46 leaves; paper.

Mar. 1854-Apr. 1854

Notebook. Astronomical notes, some dated 16 May 1855. Including "Errata in Pontecoulant's Theorie Analytique" "Errata in Plana's Theorie de la lune", "Errata in Damoiseau's Theorie de la lune". "Extract from Newton's MS used by Pemberton in preparation of 3rd ed. of Principia 16 May 1855", Various memoranda, "Extract from Sherburne's Catalogue of the most eminent Astronomers, Ancient and Modern. London, 1675".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
87p; paper.

16 May 1855

Notebook. Astronomical notes, undated. "Eclipses or other lunar phenomena calculated by the peculiarity of their circumstances to put to the test the accuracy of the modern tables".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
22 leaves; paper.

1819–1892

Notebook. Astronomical notes, undated. "Oriani's Formulae for the true anomaly & Radius Vector in an elliptic orbit in terms of the mean anomaly..." " To find the variations of the elements of a planet's orbit corresponding to given small variations of the co ordinates & their first differentiated coeffts." "Examination of law of distribution of Greenwich lunar Observations, according to the elongation of the Moon from Sun".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
24 leaves used; paper.

1819–1892