Miscellaneous correspondence, 1852
Scope and Contents
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, D.F.J. Arago, F. Beaufort, J. Challis, E.J. Cooper, W.R. Dawes, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, J.D. Forbes, R. Grant, J.F.W. Herschel, the Earl of Rosse, E. Sabine, A. Sedgwick, R. Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, R. Stephenson, W.S. Stratford, F.E.W.V. Struve, W. Whewell and Lord Wrottesley.
Dates
- Creation: 1852
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
F4/7
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:41:59+00:00
Subject
- Sheepshanks, Richard, 1794 - 1855 (astronomer) (Person)
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Arago, Dominique François Jean, 1786 - 1853 (physicist) (Person)
- Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774 - 1857 (Knight, Rear Admiral and hydrographer) (Person)
- Challis, James, 1803 - 1882 (astronomer and physicist) (Person)
- Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798 - 1863 (landowner and astronomer) (Person)
- Dawes, William Rutter, 1799 - 1868 (astronomer) (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)
- Morgan, Augustus de, 1806 - 1871 (mathematician) (Person)
- Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) (Person)
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist) (Person)
- Smyth, William Henry, 1788 - 1865 (Admiral, scientist and antiquary) (Person)
- Stratford, William Samuel, ?1791 - 1853 (naval officer and astronomer) (Person)
- Struve, Otto Wilhelm, 1819 - 1905 (astronomer) (Person)
- Whewell, William, 1794 - 1866 (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) (Person)
- Wrottesley, John, 1798 - 1867 (2nd Baron Wrottesley, landowner and astronomer) (Person)
- Stephenson, Robert, 1803 - 1859 (civil engineer) (Person)
- Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) (Person)
- Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, 1793 - 1864 (astronomer) (Person)
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