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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: 19th-century Methodist clergy, John Couch Adams, William Booth, Frances Willard, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Ephraim Kingsbury Avery, Thomas Greenway, Frederick James Jobson, P. B. S. Pinchback, James Cox Aikins, Pleasant Tackitt, Egerton Ryerson, Calvin Fairbank, Isaac Goodnow, Mary Clarke Nind, Nathan Bangs, Leonard Monk Isitt, Susan McKinney Steward, George Washington Buckner, Theophilus Gould Steward, Henry Howard, Clifford William Robinson, Joseph Denison, Amos McLemore, Albert Ernest Archer, John Rochester, John Farrar, James Egan Moulton, Thomas Albert Smith Adams, William Arthur, David Reesor, Henry Morgan, Bolton Stafford Bird, George Osborn, William Fiddian Moulton, Stephen Olin, James Ross, John Oxtoby, Joseph Hocking, Robert Bird, Silas Hocking, William Fairfield Warren, William Morley Punshon, Benjamin Franklin Haynes, David Allison, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, William Ryerson, James Mudge, William Anderson, Peter Graham, Forbes Elliott Godfrey, Lewis Carhart, Roger Edwards, John Roblin, Frank Isitt, William Black, Zachariah A. Mudge, Enoch Mudge, Charles N. Anderson, Albert Grigg, Abel Stevens, Thomas Roach, Henry Boehm, Cyrus Prindle, Thomas H. Mudge. Excerpt: John Couch Adams (5 June 1819 - 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is pronounced "cooch." His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. At the same time, but unknown to each other, the same calculations were made by Urbain Le Verrier. Le Verrier would assist Berlin Observatory astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle in locating the planet on 23 September 1846, which was found wi...
