Miscellaneous correspondence, 1848
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- Creation: 1848
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F4/3
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:41:49+00:00
Subject
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer) (Person)
- Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist) (Person)
- Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight, 1809 - 1862 (astronomer) (Person)
- Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician) (Person)
- Lloyd, Humphrey, 1800 - 1881 (physicist and university administrator) (Person)
- Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805 - 1865 (Knight, mathematician) (Person)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) (Person)
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