Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 387
not attach to Adams researches. One thing must infairness be said, and that is that the results of Le Yer-RiEB, which were reached after a most thorough investi-gation of the whole ground, were announced with an en-tire confidence, which, perhaps, was lacking in the other case. This brilliant… … Fig. 98. to a working astronomer that by pointing his telescope toa certain small area, within it should be found a newmajor planet. Yet so it was. The general nature of the disturbing force which re-vealed the new planet may be seen by Fig. 98, whichshows the orbits of the two planets, and their…
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