| Title |
Correspondence between J.C. Adams and Sir George Biddell Airy |
| Reference |
Box 2 |
| Creator |
John Couch Adams and Sir George Biddell Airy |
| Covering Dates |
5 Nov. 1845–12 June 1888 |
| Extent and Medium |
110 letters; paper |
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| Index Terms |
| Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer |
| Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer |
| St John's Library/Adams/Box 2 contains: |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for paper on perturbations of Uranus, left some days since. Query: do assumed perturbations explain error of radius vector of Uranus.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
5 Nov. 1845 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. R. Main in absence of G.B. Airy, sends normal errors of Uranus for 1844, promises 1845, and offers 1846 if it would be of use.
Creator: Robert Main, 1808-1878.
1p; paper. |
5 Sep. 1846 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Plans to write R.A.S. an account of English discovery of new planet (Neptune). Requets permission to publish J.C.A.'s correspondence to him. Addressed to "Rev.W.J. Adams".
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
14 Oct. 1846 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for note of 18th. Mentioned J.C.A.'s lack of response to query in the published correspondence only because it was already public and seemed necessary to the full account. Makes suggestion for further table to accompany memoir of perturbations of Uranus.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
20 Nov. 1846 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has examined Flamsteed's MS for observations of Uranus in 1690 and 1715 and finds them accurate.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
25 Jan. 1847 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Reply to J.C.A.'s of 29th. Comments on article in Mechanics Mag. Dec. 1846. Advises to wait for new observation of New Planet (Neptune) to measure its distance from sun, not to calculate. Thanks for further figures of position of planet. Does not favour Hansen's methods of calculation, nor LeVerrier's use of single observations. On the Lunar & planetary reductions calculated from Camb. Observatory. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 27 Mar.1851 for table of Saturn dated 1 Feb.1847).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
1 Feb. 1847 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Orbit of Neptune.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
27 Apr. 1847 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Quotes extract from letter received from LeVerrier on previous observations of the planet. JCA to write to Stratford on the name Uranus.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
29 Apr. 1847 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thinks J.C.A. has an ephemeris of Neptune for every 10 days at present time: requests copy.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
8 July 1847 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Writing from Altona; conveys compliments to J.C.A. from Countess Stroganoff whom he met in St. Petersburg.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
13 Sep. 1847 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for errors pointed out in tables [of the moon].
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
3 Oct. 1848 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. J. Jerwood has applied for membership of R.A.S., supported by J.C.A. Believed author of article derogatory to G.B.A. in Mechanics Mag. G.B.A. seeks explanation.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
17 Mar. 1849 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. J. Jerwood's unfitness for membership of R.A.S.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
20 Mar. 1849 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Approval of J.C.A's proposition for a Normal Catalogue. Comments on J.C.A's remarks on details in catalogue.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
15 Feb. 1850 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. "Physical astronomy as a national question". Suggestion of publication of theories and tables. G.B.A. approves.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
25 Mar. 1851 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Sends tables of Errors of the Tabular Heliocentric Places of Neptune. Similar table for Saturn attached (dated 1 Feb.1847).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p, 2p of tables; paper. |
27 Mar. 1851 |
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7/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Acknowledges mistake in paper on Figure of the Earth, pointed out by J.C.A. Sends copies of "Suggestions for the Eclipse" and asks if J.C.A. will go to observe it.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
12 May 1851 |
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7/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Urgently requests J.C.A., as President of R.A.S., to give authorisation for engravings to be made of eclipse, (for Memoirs of R.A.S.?).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
8 Oct. 1851 |
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8/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Query on numbers for Small Planets, requested by J.C.A.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
13 Dec. 1852 |
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8/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Encloses logarithms... for four small planets 1836-1850.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
17 June 1853 |
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8/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. On Adams's results of calculations on secular acceleration of mean motion.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
28 June 1853 |
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9/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Comments on J.C.A's paper on Moon's acceleration.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
5 July 1853 |
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9/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Further comments on J.C.A's paper on Moon's acceleration.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
8 July 1853 |
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9/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has sent paper on Eclipse of Thales. Thanks J.C.A. for paper on Secular Equation, and discusses mathematical methods employed.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
16 Mar. 1854 |
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10/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has written to Hansen to pass on information. Query of point in J.C.A's paper on the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
27 Mar. 1854 |
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10/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Motion of the moon. Quotes letter from Hansen on formulae he used. Requests further information on effects of one planet on motion of another.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
19 Apr. 1854 |
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10/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Sends paper from Encke. Asks if J.C.A. has studied Hansen's solar tables, as he wants them back.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
25 Nov. 1854 |
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10/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. On return of copy of Hansen's tables. On Challis's state of mind.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
1 Dec. 1854 |
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11/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Asking J.C.A. to meet M. & Mme. LeVerrier off train in Cambridge.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
21 Apr. 1855 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. J.C.A. to examine some financial calcuations (for R.G.O. equipment?).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
24 Oct. 1855 |
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11/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for comments in last. Further discussion and queries on mountings for some piece of R.G.O. equipment.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
5 Nov. 1855 |
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12/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Plana's corrections to J.C.A's Secular Equation of the Moon's Longitude.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
5 May 1856 |
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12/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Query on further corrections to Moon's longitude.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
10 May 1856 |
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13/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. G.B.A's opinion of J.C.A's acceleration research.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
30 Oct. 1857 |
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13/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Visit of Miss Mitchell, American astronomer, to Cambridge.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
30 Oct. 1857 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has received computation of path of shadow of eclipse at Stiklastad from Hansen.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
31 Dec. 1857 |
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14/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Greetings on becoming Professor. Information that money from Sheepshanks donation is available for astronomical research.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
13 Dec. 1858 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Wishes to publish J.C.A's paper on Moon's acceleration in Monthly Notices R.A.S.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
15 Apr. 1859 |
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15/1
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Letter signed to J.C. Adams. Practical arrangements for J.C.A. to observe Total Eclipse of 18th July in North Spain.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
12 May 1860 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Circular letter from Astronomer Royal to Members of Board of Visitors of R.G.O. Proposal to co-operate with Otto Struve to obtain accurate comparison of measurements by mapping surveys throughout Europe.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
12 May 1860 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Practical arrangements for viewing Eclipse in Spain.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
30 May 1860 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Requests help in finding new First Assistant for R.G.O.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
13 Aug. 1860 |
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Letter to J.C. Adams. Circular letter to members of Board of Visitors of R.G.O. offering to show observatory equipment to them.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
22 May 1861 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. £2000 from Sheepshanks benefaction available for use of Observatory. What would J.C.A. wish to see it spent on.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p, envelope; paper. |
16 Jan. 1862 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Reasons he cannot return the pivots of the Cambridge Transit. Suggests method of turning instrument without them.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
3 Nov. 1862 |
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17/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Seeks advice on reducing Bradley's observations 1743-1749.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
2 Apr. 1864 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Seeks further advice on reducing Bradley's observations 1743-1749. Has report of H. Breen on subject.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
8 Apr. 1864 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for comments on reduction of Bradley's observations. Otto Struve wishes to use Bradley's MSS.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
23 Apr. 1864 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has sent in paper on Jupiter's Mass. Has received paper from Hansen.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
6 Dec. 1864 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Requests comments on article by Allegret in Comptes Rendus July 10 1865 on secular inequality of moon.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
23 Aug. 1865 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Encloses (attached) transcript of letter of Hansen 18 Oct.1861 on Lunar acceleration. G.B.A. disagrees with J.C.A. on subject.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p, 2p transcript; paper. |
30 Jan. 1866 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. G.D. Liveing has passed on equation. perfectly charming. Paper on Transits of Venus.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
5 Dec. 1868 |
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19/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. J.C.A's lectures on the Figure of the Earth.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
16 Jan. 1871 |
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19/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Reply to J.C.A. of the 4th. Presidency of the R.A.S. Sends copy of letter he has written to Cayley.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
6 Jan. 1873 |
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Copy of letter to Arthur Cayley. Enclosed with G.B.Airy to J.C.A. 6/1/1873. Cannot attend meeting of Council of R.A.S. on 10th and wishes to have his views aired. Disapproves, at length, with reasons, of the Council's nomination of R.A. Proctor for the Society's medal.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
6 Jan. 1873 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has working model of Transit of Venus 1874 and wishes to show it to J.C.A. Mrs Airy in poor health.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
3 Oct. 1873 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Requests information on Gravitational Astronomy. 1. Lunar Theory; Delaunay Theorie du mouvement de la lune Vol.2 p 803. 2. Laplace on stability of solar system.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
3 Oct. 1873 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for information about Delaunay, further discussion. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 3/10/1873).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
17 Oct. 1873 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Delaunay Theorie du mouvement de la lune. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 3 and 17 Oct. 1873).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
31 Oct. 1873 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Delaunay Theorie du mouvement de la lune. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 3, 17 and 31 Oct. 1873).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
13 Mar. 1874 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Requires numerical values for movements of the moon's perigee.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
14 Mar. 1874 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks J.C.A. for letter of 23rd. Has found Delaunay's papers thereto referred.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
25 Mar. 1874 |
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Autograph postcard signed to J.C. Adams. Forthcoming visit of Auwers and Struve.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
1 May 1874 |
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22/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Requests J.C.A. or someone appointed by him studies '8 Venus mean longitude - 13 Earth's mean longitude' in the Moon's motion, to settle who is right between Hansen and Delaunay. Will send cheque for Horrocks Memorial later. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 28th Oct. 1874).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
18 Sep. 1874 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Encloses cheque for Horrocks Memorial. Regrets that J.C.A. cannot look into 8-13 Lunar inequality. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 18 Sept. 1874).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
28 Oct. 1874 |
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23/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for copy of Smith's Prize paper. Queries difficult question.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
9 Feb. 1876 |
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23/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Query regarding lunar acceleration.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
5 Aug. 1878 |
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23/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Is sending the astronomical sheets of the Greenwich vol. for 1876. Board of Visitors of R.G.O. instructed G.B.A. to consult J.C.A. on shortening the printing of results. Discusses points of detail.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
8 Nov. 1878 |
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23/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Reply to J.C.A's letter of 29th. G.B.A. has been working on same problem (probably acceleration of the moon's mean motion: see Monthly Notices R.A.S. Vol.50 (1880). Compares notes.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
30 Aug. 1879 |
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24/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks J.C.A. for sending set of papers on the Cambridge Observatory.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
31 Jan. 1880 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. G.B.A. attempting to master J.C.A's theory of ? Now stuck and requires assistance.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
10 Feb. 1880 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for J.C.A's explanation of formula (see G.B.A. to J.C.A. 10th Feb. 1880).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
12 Feb. 1880 |
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24/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. G.B.A. has read paper on Lunar Acceleration before the R.A.S. Regrets that neither J.C.A. nor A. Cayley was there to hear it.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
10 Apr. 1880 |
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24/5
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Regrets mistake about parallax in recent paper (possibly see G.B.A. to J.C.A 10 Apr.1880).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
15 May 1880 |
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25/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Query regarding J.C.A's value of mean lunar parallax.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
26 Sep. 1881 |
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25/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar distances: substance of G.B.A's paper previously published by Zach. "Nothing new under the sun". Wishes to know how Zach arrived at idea; describes own route.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
13 Dec. 1881 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Gravitational theory: query on Delaunay Tom.2 p3.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
24 Feb. 1882 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Proposed memorial for Mrs Robinson. G.B.A's position as a public servant and practice on previous occasions.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
23 Mar. 1882 |
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26/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. G.B.A. strongly objects to alterations made by Christie to the collimeter of transit instrument.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
5 June 1882 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Details of how G.B.A. strongly objects to alterations made by Christie to the collimeter of transit instrument.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
1 July 1882 |
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26/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. 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.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
15 July 1882 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Supports J.C.A's proposal to add the spheroidal form of the lunar distance correction to the tables in the Nautical Almanac.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
20 July 1882 |
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27/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Mathematical problem about triangles.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
10 Feb. 1883 |
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27/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In reply to J.C.A. of 7th June. Reasons for Delaunay's numerical inaccuracies. Reasons for G.B.A's numerical inaccuracies.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
8 June 1883 |
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28/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Progress of G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory. Fears may not be able to complete the work and asks J.C.A. to see it through the press should this prove to be the case.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
11 Mar. 1884 |
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28/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Replies to comments (of J.C.A's?) on the Science of the Lunar Theory.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
19 Mar. 1884 |
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28/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks J.C.A. for agreeing to his request (see G.B.A. to J.C.A. 11 Mar.1884). Trusts that only practical arrangements for printing will be needed.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
19 Mar. 1884 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Introduction for Mr. McConnel, who is overhauling optical apparatus for G.B.A. who wishes him to try an experiment with lenses, using one of the C.O. telescopes, if J.C.A. will agree.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
4 Dec. 1884 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has more or less finished his Lunar Theory; now at printers. Thanks J.C.A for agreeing to take charge if necessary. Possibility of needing him much diminished but not passed away.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
15 Dec. 1884 |
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29/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Progress report on printing of lunar theory.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
4p; paper. |
29 Mar. 1886 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Progress report on printing of lunar theory. Asks if J.C.A. intends to apply reduction of the Coefficient of Lunar Acceleration to ancient eclipses.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
16 May 1886 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Requests loan of paper of J.C.A's published in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. to make copy. Remembers seeing it: has not kept the entire set of the Trans.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
11 Dec. 1886 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for copy of paper from Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
31 Jan. 1887 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. xm-1=0, or xm=1. J.C.A. has solved by investigation. G.B.A. demonstrates solution by trial substitution.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
14 June 1887 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for note of 16th. Compares notes on equation. Has sent in note to Camb. Phil. Soc. on subject.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
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23 July 1887 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has read J.C.A's notes in Annual Report, in Monthly Notices R.A.S. on G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory. Does not object to remarks, but has discovered major error for himself.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
3p; paper. |
11 Mar. 1888 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has Delaunay published vol. 3 of his Theorie du Mouvement de la lune?.
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
1p; paper. |
26 May 1888 |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Has read J.C.A's notes on G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory, and is satisfied, but has discovered major error for himself. (See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 11 Mar.1888).
Creator: Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892.
2p; paper. |
12 June 1888 |
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Autograph copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Ways of spending £2000 of Sheepshanks grant: Transit Circle, Chronographic apparatus, central clock, telegraph wires. See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 16 Jan.1862.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4p, slip; paper. |
7 Feb. 1862 |
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Autograph copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Letter from Hansen to G.B.A. in Monthly Notices R.A.S. Nov. 8 1861. Hansen's memoir on the perturbations of the small planets: where he is wrong; where the translation is at fault.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4p; paper. |
29 Jan. 1866 |
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Autograph copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Hansen's memoir on the perturbations of the small planets.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
4p; paper. |
1 Feb. 1866 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Transit of Venus. Willing to use C.O. telescope to make observations. Has another which might be of use. Suggests techniques for getting most out of the event. Suggests that S.J.C. Dolland telescope might also be used.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
8p; paper. |
5 May 1873 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Explanation of how G.B.A. has misunderstood Delaunay's lunar formula. Agrees about stability of solar system. Would like to see model of transit of Venus.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
3p; paper. |
15 Oct. 1873 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Can think of no sensible way of reducing the length of the Greenwich Observations. Suggests modifications for G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
12p; paper. |
19 May 1879 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Further to previous explanation, which was evidently too brief. Detailed explanation of mathematics for G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory?.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
7p; paper. |
29 May 1879 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Has been checking errors in G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory: cause is Delaunay's coefficients of parallax. Explains why.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
8p; paper. |
7 June 1883 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Agrees to take on G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory if G.B.A. unable to bring it to press himself. Refers to J.C.A. to G.B.A. of 7 Jun.1883, and has further information to add on the causes of inaccuracy in the numerical coefficients.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
5p; paper. |
17 Mar. 1884 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Reply to G.B.A. 29 Mar. 1886. Confirms he will be happy to take on publication of Lunar Theory if necessary. Suggests more decimal places and more equations needed to eliminate inequalities of long period in the theory.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
3p; paper. |
5 Apr. 1886 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. J.C.A. comments on details of G.B.A's Numerical Lunar Theory.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
6p; paper. |
13 Mar. 1888 |
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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy. Further to letter of Mar. 13th. Suggests sources for more accurate values than those employed by G.B.A. in his Numerical Lunar Theory, and points out one mistake.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
3p; paper. |
24 Apr. 1888 |
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