Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, Chicago, A. S. Barnes & company · leaf 272
bservations that had been made between 1781 and 1820. After the publica-tion of these tables it was soon found that the observedplaces of the planet did not conform to those given by thetables, and as the time after 1822 increased, these discrep-ancies became continually greater. Adams began his… … Pig. 99. Relative positions of Uranus andNeptune. %68 ASTROXOMY/. his predictions. In the latter part of 1845 Le Vender pub-lished a memoir to show that the perturbations of Uranuswere not due to the sole action of Jupiter and Saturn, andin June, 1846, he published a second memoir to show thatan…
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