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In the field of telescopic discovery be-
yond our solar system there is no one who
has enlarged our knowledge so much as Sir
William Herschel, to whom we owe the great-
est discovery in dynamical astronomy among
the stars–viz., that the law of gravitation
extends to the most distant stars, and that
many of them describe elliptic orbits about
each other. W. Herschel was born at Hanover
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