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                                         years; I Serpentis, 375 years; I Leonis, 1,200
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                                         years; I Bootis, 1,681 years.
                                            Twenty years later Sir John Herschel and
                                         Sir James South, after re-examination of
                                         these stars, confirmed[12] and extended the
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                                         results, one pair of CoronA having in the
                                         interval completed more than a whole rev-
                                         olution.
                                            It is, then, to Sir William Herschel that
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