Popular astronomy : a concise elementary treatise on the sun, planets, satellites and comets (1865)
Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862 · New York : Oakley & Mason · leaf 292
own causes, P the place of the unknown^ when inconjunction with Uranus at U^ It is manifest that theforce exerted by P on Uranus will tend to accelerate itsvelocity in coming up to conjunction, and to cause thepath described to lie outside the computed path along thedotted line, the planet really… … degrees receding from tlie disturbing body, it wouldgradually return to the undisturbed orbit, and there con-tinue until the period for the next conjunction mightapproach. Such is a rous^h exhibition of the reasoninor which wasemployed to narrow the limits of research in the effortto point the…
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