Janus: Papers of John Couch Adams

St John's Library/Adams contains:
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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
Box 24-26	Papers given by Mrs Horne, in 1990, including correspondence, early diaries, correspondence post mortem etc.
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Papers of John Couch Adams

Title	Adams's research on astronomical and mathematical subjects (loose papers)
Reference	Box 19
Creator	John Couch Adams, 1819-1892
Covering Dates	1712–1886
Extent and Medium	35 papers; paper

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Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

St John's Library/Adams/Box 19 contains:

Logarithms calculated on long strips of paper.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
8 sheets; paper.

17 July 1874–8 Sep. 1874

19/1/1

Autograph letter to Roger Cotes. Draft of letter for which the final version does not survive, of late Jul./early Aug. 1712, containing a draft of the Scholium to Proposition 35 of the Principia, 2nd ed., 1713. See A.R. Hall and L. Tilling (eds.) The correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 5, 1709-1713. CUP, 1975. pp 315-319, letters 929 and 931. The letter was discovered in JCA's papers with letters from D. Brewster, March - May 1855, (Box 5/37), and had evidently been sent to Brewster for comment and returned, through the post. The remainder of Newton's drafts of letters to Cotes are among the Portsmouth Papers in CUL, and the final versions (other than that of this letter), are in Trinity College Library.
Creator: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727.
2 leaves; paper.

July 1712-Aug. 1712

19/2/1

Undated description of the letter of Newton's found in Adams's papers. (19/1).
Creator: Ralph Allen Sampson, 1866-1939.
3 leaves, envelope; paper.

1866–1939

19/3/1

Mathematics problems, used in teaching undergraduates. Arranged under the headings used for the Tripos: Dynamics, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, Hydrostatics.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
39 leaves; paper.

1843–1858

19/4/1

Paper. "Equilibrium Theory of Tides according to Thomson" Calculations dated 28 Aug. - 2 Sep. 1876.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
19 leaves; paper.

28 Aug. 1876–2 Sep. 1876

19/5/1

Notes. "Notes on Niven's paper "On the Calculation of the Trajectories of Shot"".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
6 leaves, loose slip; paper.

1876

19/6/1

Paper. "Calc'n. of Niven's Example of a Trajectory.".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
18 leaves; paper.

8 Aug. 1876–20 Dec. 1876

19/7/1

Paper. "We will now try another method which occured to me on Dec. 7th 1876..." calculations on the trajectories of shot, from Niven. Workings dated 9 - 19 Dec. 1876.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
30p; paper.

7 Dec. 1876–19 Dec. 1876

19/8/1

Paper. "Let h = moon's hour angle, D = distance of moon from Sun... " calculations of the height of tides, including comments on Thomson's method and notation.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4 sheets; paper.

18 July 1882

19/9/1

Paper. "Indications of date in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with calculations "From hours L h and alt. [alpha] and lat. [phi] to find decln. [delta].
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
2 sheets; paper.

7 Jan. 1878

19/9/2

Paper. Description of the Ring Dial and its use. Written on back of CUL borrowing slips.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
2 sheets; paper.

1819–1892

19/10/1-9

Notes. Notes relating to the origin of the Theodolite from: Rathbone's Surveyor, 1616; William Leybourne's Compleat Surveyor, 1653; Hutton's Dictionary; Thomas Digges Scalae mathematicae, 1573, Pantometrica, 1571; Fortification or Architecture Military. Calculations worked "On Tycho's method of dividing transversals", dated 4th and 6th Dec. 1886. See correspondence between JCA and W.W. Skeat, and W.W. Skeat and Mrs Adams.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
10 sheets, envelope; paper.

4 Dec. 1886–6 Dec. 1886

19/11/1

Note. "Note on Mr. Neison's letter..." Refers to E. Neison "note on a term in the perturbations of the moon, due to the action of Mars". Monthly Notices of the RAS Vol.42, March 1882. See also C. Gogou "Extract from a letter to Prof. JC Adams on the numerical value of the co-efficient of Neison's long inequality in the Moon's motion due to the action of Mars. Mthly Nots. RAS Vol. 45 Nov. 1884.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4p; paper.

1882

19/11/2

Paper. "According to Darwin Phil. Trans. 1879 part 1. p.9... [on elastic solids].
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4p; paper.

1879

19/11/3

Paper. "The Addendum to Airy's paper in which he arrives at the opposite conclusion... [retardation of the Earth's rotation].
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
1p; paper.

1819–1892

19/11/4

Paper. "In the Greenwich Obs'ns previous to 1840, the Heliocentric Errors of Long. & Lat. were expressed in terms of the Geocentric Errors & the proper Weight of each resulting equation was given...".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4p; paper.

1819–1892

19/11/5

Paper. "According to Newcomb, the perturbns. of Longitude of Uranus by Neptune...".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
1p; paper.

1819–1892

19/12/1-2

Drafts for a letter or speech. "When my Memoir on the Secular acceleration of the Moon's Mean Motion was communicated to the Royal Society..."; "The object of my Memoir "On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion" published in...".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
2 sheets; paper.

1819–1892

19/12/3

Paper. "Table shewing the weight in Hundredths of a Grain required to move the Index through any number of Divisions...".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
1 sheet; paper.

1819–1892

19/13/1

Notes. Diagram with notes on an eclipse, probably the solar eclipse of 1851.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
1 sheet; paper.

1851

19/13/2

List of books for sale from various booksellers.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
1 sheet; paper.

1819–1892

19/13/3-5

Fragments of calculations and tables.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
3 sheets; paper.

1819–1892

19/14/1

Paper. "If three points be taken at random anywhere in the interior of a circle of given radius, to find the mean or average value of the square of the area of the triangle of which these points are the angular points...".
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
2 sheets; paper.

8 Apr. 1869

19/14/2

Copy of lecture. "There is a record as early as A.D. 902 of a shower of meteors - 12th October...." Copy in hand of Mrs A. of substance of lecture by JCA on the November meteors, with further comments by Mrs A.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4p; paper.

1863–1892