Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 144
minutes ;Mars, in 4m 4S8; j upiter, in 2b 56m ;Saturn, in 3hi3m; Uranus, in 2hio; and Neptune, in 3h 30™. Among the great astronomerswho, at the beginning of the present Icentury, turned their attention tothe important problem of deter-mining a planets motion from ob-servation, Gauss is… … ioo Stars and Telescopes It has often been surmised that there is a planet(possibly several planets) nearer the Sun than Mer- now been accurately observed so long a time, and the elementsof their motion are so thoroughly well ascertained, that it ispossible to predict their future positions with a…
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