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is now universally adopted. He held that
an observation is not completed until it has
been reduced to a useful form; and in the
case of the sun, moon, and planets these
results were, in every case, compared with
the tables, and the tabular error printed.
Airy was firmly impressed with the ob-
ject for which Charles II. had wisely founded
the observatory in connection with navi-
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