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A treatise on astronomy, descriptive, physical and practical. Designed for schools, colleges, and private students (1849)

Robinson, Horatio N. (Horatio Nelson), 1806-1867 · Albany, N.Y., E.H. Pease & Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 227

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he pow-ers of mind in the solarsystem, was the discoveryof the new planet Nep-tune, by Leverrier andAdams analyzing the in-equalities of the motionof Uranus. To give a rude explanation of the possibility ofthis problem we present Figure 43. Let S be the sun, andthe regular curve the orbit of… … ABERRATION. 21o S P, although no such body was eyer seen or known to exist. Cha?- ylThe next time the planet comes round into the same portionsof its orbit,* suppose the center of the protuberance to havechanged to the line S Q. This would indicate that the un- How com • ><, putations known…

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