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John Couch Adams

Born: 5 Jun 1819

Died: 21 Jan 1892

British mathematician and astronomer. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics.

Born: 5 Jun 1819

Died: 21 Jan 1892

Books by John Couch Adams (50 max)

The scientific papers of John Couch Adams ...

1896

John Couch Adams, J. W. L. Glaisher, William Grylls Adams

An explanation of the observed irregularities in the motion of Uranus: on the hypothesis of disturbances caused by a more distant planet : with a determination of the mass, orbit, and position of the disturbing body

1846

John Couch Adams, Royal Astronomical Society, Printer William Clowes and Sons

Lectures on the lunar theory

1900

John Couch Adams, R. A. Sampson

Reply to various objections which have been brought against his theory of the secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion

1860

John Couch Adams

Lectures on the Lunar Theory

2018

R. Sampson, John Couch Adams

Note on the resolution of x ny + 1/x ny - 2 cos n alpha into factors

1868

John Couch Adams

On the motion of the moon's node in the case when the orbits of the sun and moon are supposed to have no eccentricities, and when their mutual inclination is supposed to be indefinitely small

1877

John Couch Adams

Note on a remarkable property of the analytical expression for the constant term in the reciprocal of the moon's radius vector

1878

John Couch Adams

Lectures on the Lunar Theory

2015

John Couch Adams

Lectures on the Lunar Theory

2018

R. A. Sampson, John Couch Adams