Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 185
< as S5 O $ Si ^ 142 Stars and Telescopes planet. The question as to the nature of the causewas soon settled by the rapidly increasing deviation ofUranus from the course marked out for it by the Tablesbased upon observations between 1781 and 1821 ;nor could it reasonably be doubted that the… … LE VERRIER (rSlI —1S77) Jut the problem of calculating the place of anunknown planet by simple knowledge of its influenceupon another, 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…
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