JOHN COUCH ADAMS- Discovering NEPTUNE By Malcolm Wright
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MALCOLM WRIGHT: Malcolm spent a career in Further Education. He developed the first website devoted to Causley before becoming Chairman of the Charles Causley Society and then Secretary of the Charles Causley Trust. Both he and his wife Sylvia (who worked as a teacher of English as a Second Language and who reads the poems in this presentation) were heavily involved in the annual Charles Causley Festival. They have lived in Launceston for nearly forty years.
TALK: The story of how John Couch Adams, son of a tenant farmer from East Cornwall, rose to become the foremost British mathematician since Isaac Newton and who predicted the position of a then unknown planet. It also details the near diplomatic incident with France (just 30 years after the Napoleonic wars) which occurred when Adams’s results were made public. This talk outlines the history of the events and contains very little scientific detail.
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Mon 24th Feb | 2pm |
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All Tickets | £6.00 |
FOTW Conc Single | £5.00 |
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