John Couch Adams

5 Jun 1819 – 21 Jan 1892

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

• An explanation of the observed irregularities in the motion of Uranus
• Lectures on the lunar theory
• Reply to various objections which have been brought against his theory of the secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion
• The scientific papers
• Lectures on the Lunar Theory
• Lectures on the Lunar Theory
• Lectures on the Lunar Theory
• Note on a remarkable property of the analytical expression for the constant term in the reciprocal of the moon's radius vector
• Note on the resolution of x ny + 1/x ny - 2 cos n alpha into factors
• 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