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