...added,— "It is not, however, a necessary conclusion, that 1850.] Leverrier and Professor Peirce. 67 Neptune will not account for the perturbations of...inference from them can be safely extended to it." In the course of a few months, a satellite to Neptune was discovered, the observed orbit of which supplied...

...limits of the first proposition. Neptune cannot, then, be the planet of M. LeVerriers theory, and cnnnot account for the observed perturbations of Uranus,...of the perturbations takes place near the distance 35-3; so that the continuous law by which such inferences are justified is abruptly broken at this...

...forty years. than the inferior limit given by the first. " It is not, however," continued Peirce, " a necessary conclusion that Neptune will not account...previous researches, that no inference from them can be extended to it. An important change, indeed, in the character of the perturbations, takes place near...

...forty years than the inferior limit given by the first. " It is not, however," continued Peirce, " a necessary conclusion that Neptune will not account...previous researches, that no inference from them can be extended to it. An important change, indeed, in the character of the perturbations, takes place near...

...added,— "It is not, however, a necessary conclusion, that 1850.) Leverrier and Professor Peirce. 67 Neptune will not account for the perturbations of...inference from them can be safely extended to it." In the course of a few months, a satellite to Neptune was discovered, the observed orbit of which supplied...

...Neptune will not account for the perturbations of Uranus, for its probable mean distance of about SO is so much less than the limits of the previous researches,...of the perturbations takes place near the distance 35-3; so that the continuous law by which such inferences are justified is abruptly broken at this...