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Add. MS a/200/145
Titre
Letter from George Airy
Date(s)
- 10 Oct. 1859 (Production)
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Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
3 pp.
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Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
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Portée et contenu
Royal Observatory Greenwich - WW needs to amend the date with regard to the Sheepshanks Exhibition [for background see GA to WW, 30 Sept., 1856]. Le Verrier's [Urbain J. J. Leverrier] 'speculation is a fair one [see GA to WW, 4 Oct. 1859]: but it almost excludes explanation of another matter which he thought he had established, namely the retardation of mean motion of Mercury'.