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H. H. Turner. Astronomical Discovery
Astronomical Discovery
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF PLATES
ERRATA
ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY. CHAPTER I
URANUS AND EROS
CHAPTER II
THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE
CHAPTER III
BRADLEY’S DISCOVERIES OF THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT AND OF THE NUTATION OF THE EARTH’S AXIS
CHAPTER IV
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER V
SCHWABE AND THE SUN-SPOT PERIOD
CHAPTER VI
THE VARIATION OF LATITUDE
INDEX
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H. H. Turner
Published by Good Press, 2022
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No “swimming into ken.”
We cannot, therefore, fit the facts to Keats’ version of them. The planet did not majestically reveal itself to a merely passive observer: rather did it, assuming the disguise of an ordinary star, evade detection to the utmost of its power; so that the keenest eye, the most alert attention, the most determined following up of a mere hint, were all needed to unmask it. But is the romance necessarily gone? If another Keats could arise and know the facts, could he not coin a newer and a truer phrase for us which would still sound as sweetly in our ears?
