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like Uranus, before it had ever been seen,
when the analysis of Adams and Le Verrier
gave a final proof of the powers of Newton’s
great law to explain any planetary irregu-
larity.
After Sir William Herschel discovered
Uranus, in 1781, it was found that astronomers
had observed it on many previous occasions,
mistaking it for a fixed star of the sixth
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