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opments it is possible to trace some of the
steps in the crowning triumph of the New-
tonian theory, by which the planet Neptune
was added to the known members of the so-
lar system by the independent researches of
Professor J.C. Adams and of M. Le Verrier,
in 1846.
It will be best to introduce this subject
by relating how the eighteenth century in-
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