Miscellaneous correspondence, 1849 - 1850
Scope and Contents
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
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
F4/4
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:41:52+00:00
- Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892 (astronomer)
- Adams, L, fl1800 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude)
- Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist)
- Biot, Jean (Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist)
- Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist)
- Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer)
- Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher)
- Henslow, John Stevens, 1796 - 1861 (botanist and Church of England clergyman)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer)
- Johnson, Manuel John, 1805 - 1859 (astronomer)
- Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer)
- Miller, William Hallowes, 1801 - 1880 (mineralogist)
- Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer)
- Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo, 1781 - 1864 (astronomer and mathematician)
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780 - 1850 (astronomer)
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer)
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer)
- Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le, 1811 - 1877 (astronomer)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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