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has led to improved mathematical methods,
which, combined with the greater accuracy
of observation, have rendered physical as-
tronomy of to-day the most exact of the
sciences.
Laplace only expressed the universal opin-
ion of posterity when he said that to the
Principia is assured ”a pre-eminence above
all the other productions of the human in-
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