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BOOK III. OBSERVATION
10. INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION–
STATE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
Having now traced the progress of phys-
ical astronomy up to the time when very
striking proofs of the universality of the law
of gravitation convinced the most sceptical,
it must still be borne in mind that, while
gravitation is certainly the principal force
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