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Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/15/4
Unique identifier
GB 275 Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/15/4
Title
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Date(s)
- 7 Nov. 1847 (Creation)
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4p paper
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(1792-1871)
Biographical history
Astronomer; son of Sir William Herschel; senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, 1813; subsequently fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; MA 1816; helped to found Analytical Society, Cambridge, 1813; secretary to Royal Society 1824-7; president of Astronomical Society, 1827-32; created baronet, 1838; president of British Association, 1845; master of the Mint, 1850-5. Major contribution to astronomy through the discovery and cataloguing of many double stars, work on 'light' and early work on photographical process. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Invitation to stay to meet Somerville family. Meteors. Duke of Northumberland.
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- Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer (Subject)