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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, 1883 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 15/126
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Miscellaneous correspondence of David Gill with astronomers and other individuals, divided into sections by correspondent: Cleveland Abbe; J.C. Adams; Professor Bakhuyzen; L. de Ball; Ballot; Belknapp, Washington; Miss Clerke; A.A. Common; Ralph Copeland; Cornu, Paris; Lord Lindsay; G.H. Darwin; J.L.E. Dreyer; Espin; Floyd of the Lick Observatory; J.W.L. Glaisher; and Gould.

Dates: 1883 - 1890
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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Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude) 1
Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801 - 1892 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) 1
Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) 1
Bakhuyzen, Hendricus Gerardus van de Sande, 1838 - 1923 (astronomer) 1
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Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840 - 1913 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Board of Longitude 1
Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) 1
Clerke, Agnes Mary, 1842 - 1907 (writer on astronomy) 1
Dreyer, John Louis Emile, 1852 - 1926 (astronomer) 1
Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) 1
Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) 1
Everest, George, Sir, 1790 - 1866 (Knight, military engineer) 1
Gill, David, Sir, 1843 - 1914 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Glaisher, James, 1809 - 1903 (astronomer) 1
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) 1
Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738 - 1822 (Knight, astronomer and musician) 1
Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) 1
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Knobel, Edward Ball, 1841 - 1930 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Lee, John, 1783 - 1866 (antiquary and astronomer) 1
Maclear, Thomas, Sir, 1794 - 1879 (Knight, astronomer) 1
Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) 1
Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (1st Baronet, geologist) 1
Paris Observatory 1
Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Rue, Warren De La, 1815 - 1889 (chemist and astronomer) 1
Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) 1
Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) 1
Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) 1
Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) 1
Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (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
Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer) 1
Young, Charles Augustus, 1834 - 1908 (astronomer) 1
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