Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 347
to the numbers 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, each of which (the second excepted) is twice the preceding, we add4, we obtain the series 4. 7, 10, 16, 28, 52, 100, 196, 388, These last numbers represent approximately the distances of theplanets from the Sun (except for Neptune, which was not… … 4 0 7.0 10.0 16.0 28.0 52.0 100.0 196.0 Although the so-called law was purely arbitrary, the agreementbetween the distances predicted by the law and the actual distanceswas sufficiently close to draw attention to the fact that a srap existedin the succession of the planets between Mars and Jupiter.…
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