Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 357
ts of pendulum experiments. Although the subject has since been more elaborately 294 A Short History of Astronomy [Ch. XI. and more generally treated by later writers, and a goodmany additions have been made, few if any results offundamental importance have been added to those con-tained in… … Fig. 80.—The path of Halleys comet. 1758; as the time approached Clairaut took up the taskof computing the perturbations which it would probably haveexperienced since its last appearance, owing to the influenceof the two great planets, Jupiter and Saturn, close to bothof which it would have passed.…
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