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Adams/Box 16/13/4
Unique identifier
GB 275 Adams/Box 16/13/4
Title
Pressed copy of autograph letter signed to W. De La Rue
Date(s)
- 29 Jan. 1866 (Creation)
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2p paper
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Scope and content
In French. Sent with De La Rue to JCA 2 Feb.1866 16/11/3. Comments on De La Rue's speech on awarding Gold Medal of RAS to JCA. On the history of the secular variation of the moon's mean motion. PAH never contested JCA's ideas on the secular equations of the moon. On the accuracy of tables of the moon or planets.