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It would be very interesting, but quite
impossible in these pages, to discuss all the
exquisite researches of the mathematical as-
tronomers, and to inspire a reverence for
the names connected with these researches,
which for two hundred years have been es-
tablishing the universality of Newton’s law.
The lunar and planetary theories, the beau-
tiful theory of Jupiter’s satellites, the figure
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