Miscellaneous correspondence, 1828 - 1847
Scope and Contents
Airy's miscellaneous personal correspondence, discussing, among other matters, minor planets, the health of friends, the distribution of scientific papers, and the Great Northern steamship. There is also a paper on progressive educational studies, an anti-German lampoon, and a whimsical engraving of people flying near Greenwich, c. 1840. The correspondents include J.H.V. Madler, O.M. Mitchel, W.H. Miller, A.C. Peterson, G.A.A. Plana, L.A. Quetelet, J.T.R. Robinson, the Earl of Rosse, K.L.C. Rümker, E. Sabine, G.S.G. Santini, H.C. Schumacher, J.R. Hind, R. Sheepshanks, A. Sedgwick, W.H. Smyth, C. Wheatstone, W.S. Stratford, F.G.W. Struve, J. Taylor and W. Whewell.
Dates
- Creation: 1828 - 1847
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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Extent
2 archive box(es) (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F4/2
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:41:46+00:00
Subject
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) (Person)
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) (Person)
- Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) (Person)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) (Person)
- Robinson, John Thomas Romney, 1792 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) (Person)
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) (Person)
- Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) (Person)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) (Person)
- Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) (Person)
- Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist) (Person)
- Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) (Person)
- Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) (Person)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) (Person)
- Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802 - 1875 (Knight, developer of telegraphy) (Person)
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