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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1846 - 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/247
Scope and Contents (1) Letters regarding the existence of Neptune, 1846-1878Duplicate copies of collected correspondence on the investigations of J.C. Adams and U.J.J. Le Verrier into the existence of Neptune and in particular of the ensuing controversy over the name of the planet. There are also other letters concerning the minor planets and mathematical formula for their orbits, the Moon's equation and lunar acceleration. The correspondents include J.C. Adams, Sir George Airy, F.N.M. Arago, J....
Dates: 1846 - 1897
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1849 - 1850

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/371
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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.

Dates: 1849 - 1850
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on Neptune and the minor planets, 1834 - 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/96a
Scope and Contents Correspondence of G.B. Airy (including many copy letters) and related papers concerning planets, including circulars, ephemerides, observations, announcements of discoveries, discussion of names and requests for information. The papers are in English unless otherwise indicated. They are divided into seven sections, comprised of the following items:Fo. 1r: List of contents.Fo. 2: Blank.Fo. 3r: Short note regarding the binding of the papers.Section 1: Papers...
Dates: 1834 - 1884
Conditions Governing Access: The volume is currently undergoing conservation work and is unavailable to readers, although a microfilm copy may be consulted.

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Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 2
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 2
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 2
Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) 2
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 2
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Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 2
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 2
Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) 2
Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) 2
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 2
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 2
Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) 2
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 2
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) 2
Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) 2
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 1
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840 - 1913 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) 1
Beechey, St Vincent, 1806 - 1899 (clergyman) 1
Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) 1
Board of Longitude 1
Breen, Hugh, 1824 (astronomer) 1
Common, Andrew Ainslie, 1841 - 1903 (astronomer and astronomical photographer) 1
Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and astronomer) 1
Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) 1
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845 - 1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 1
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 1789 - 1864 (critic and antiquary) 1
Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 1
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 1
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) 1
Galloway, Thomas, 1796 - 1851 (mathematician) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) 1
Hartnup, John, 1806 - 1885 (astronomer) 1
Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman) 1
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 1
Hervey, Thomas Kibble, 1799 - 1859 (poet and journalist) 1
Holland, Henry, Sir, 1788 - 1873 (1st Baronet, physician) 1
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Hussey, Thomas John, fl1819 - 1854 (Rector of Hayes, astronomer) 1
Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Knobel, Edward Ball, 1841 - 1930 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Lawson, Henry, 1774 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Lubbock, John William, Sir, 1803 - 1865 (3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker) 1
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Main, Robert, 1808 - 1878 (astronomer) 1
Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) 1
Nichol, John Pringle, 1804 - 1859 (astronomer) 1
Paris Observatory 1
Peacock, George, 1791 - 1858 (Dean of Ely, mathematician) 1
Pentland, Joseph Barclay, 1797 - 1873 (traveller) 1
Pillans, James, 1778 - 1864 (educational reformer) 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Riddle, Edward, 1788 - 1854 (mathematician and astronomer) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Rümker, Karl Ludwig Christian, 1788 - 1862 (astronomer) 1
Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) 1
Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) 1
Tennant, James Francis, 1829 - 1915 (soldier and astronomer) 1
Thomson, William, 1824 - 1907 (Baron Kelvin, mathematician and physicist) 1
Todd, Charles, Sir, 1826 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer and meteorologist) 1
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861 - 1930 (astronomer and seismologist) 1
University of Cambridge 1
Walker, Sears Cook, 1805 - 1853 (astronomer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
Young, John Radford, 1799 - 1885 (mathematician) 1
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