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engaged in like researches. But, since the
publication of the Principia , in 1687, there
is probably no analytical success which has
raised among astronomers such a feeling of
admiration and gratitude as when Adams
and Le Verrier showed the inequalities in
Uranus’s motion to mean that an unknown
planet was in a certain place in the heavens,
where it was found.
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