Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician)
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence on weights and measures, 1829 - 1848
Lunar reductions, 1857
Comparison of G. Plana's longitude and ecliptic north polar distance of the Moon with interpolated places from the 'Nautical Almanac' and observed places by the altazimuth and from observations, 1847-1851. There are also computations of Plana's Place Days when Arguments = 0 for 1750-1851.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1848
Airy's miscellaneous personal correspondence for 1848, including requests for clocks and nautical almanacs and an extract from a book by J.F.W. Herschel called 'Outlines of Astronomy'. The correspondents include J.B. Biot, J.D. Forbes, W.R. Hamilton, J.F.W. Herschel, O.M. Mitchel, G.A.A. Plana, L.A. Quetelet, H.C. Schumacher, H. Lloyd, W.H. Smyth, F.G.W. Struve and J.R. Young.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1849 - 1850
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, J.C. Adams, D.F.J. Arago, J.B. Biot, P.H.L. von Boguslowski, J. Challis, W. Cubitt, A. d'Abbadie, J.D. Forbes, J.S. Henslow, J.F.W. Herschel, M.J. Johnson, W. Lassell, U.J.J. Le Verrier, W.H. Miller, J.P. Nichol, G.A.A. Plana, J.C. Ross, the Earl of Rosse, H.C. Schumacher, G.G. Stokes, W.H. Smyth, C.P. Smyth, R. Sheepshanks, F.E.W.V. Struve and W. Whewell.