Miscellaneous correspondence, 1851
Scope and Contents
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, D.F.J. Arago, C. Babbage, G.P. Bond, J. Challis, A.R. Clarke, W. Cubitt, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, J.D. Forbes, J.G. Forchhammer, E. Gautier, B.A. Gould, P.A. Hansen, J.F.W. Herschel, G.B.I.T. Libri, G. Peacock, C. Pritchard, L.A. Quetelet, H.V. Regnault, the Earl of Rosse, G.S.G. Santini, H.C. Schumacher, P.A. Secchi, A. Sedgwick, R. Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, R. Stephenson, G.G. Stokes, W.S. Stratford, F.G.W. Struve, J. Tyndall, Y. Villarceau and W. Whewell. The papers include a printed pamphlet of letters in French from G.B.I.T. Libri, a printed paper 'on the polarity of Bismuth including an examination of the Magnetic field' by J. Tyndall, and the printed testimonials of J. Tyndall.
Dates
- Creation: 1851
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
French
Former / Other Reference
F4/6
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:41:56+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)
- Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) (Person)
- Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) (Person)
- Cubitt, William, Sir, 1785 - 1861 (Knight, civil engineer) (Person)
- Denison, William Thomas, Sir, 1804 - 1871 (Knight, army officer and colonial governor) (Person)
- Encke, Johann Franz, 1791 - 1865 (astronomer) (Person)
- Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hansen, Peter Andreas, 1795 - 1874 (astronomer) (Person)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) (Person)
- Pritchard, Charles, 1808 - 1893 (headmaster and astronomer) (Person)
- Quetelet, Lambert (Adolphe-Jacques (1796-1874) astronomer, statistician and sociologist) (Person)
- Santini, Giovanni, 1787 - 1877 (astronomer) (Person)
- Secchi, Pietro Angelo, 1818 - 1878 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) (Person)
- Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) (Person)
- Tyndall, John, 1820 - 1893 (natural philosopher) (Person)
- Villarceau, Antoine (Joseph Yvon (1813-1883) astronomer and mathematician) (Person)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) (Person)
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) (Person)
- Stephenson, Robert, 1803 - 1859 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist) (Person)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) (Person)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) (Person)
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