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 192
nother, staggered the few mathematical astron-omers who were capable of attacking it, most ofwhom were already deeply engaged in labors too The Planets 143 essential and exacting to bear an interruption of thelength which its solution would seemingly demand.In 1843-45, however, it was taken up by… … ADAMS (1819-1892) Director of the Observatory there, died 21st January1892; the other, Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier,was for many years Director of the National Observa-tory at Paris, where he died 23rd September 1877.We cannot enter here into the history of their recon-dite investigations; the…
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