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of a visible and an invisible star. There is
no reason to suppose luminosity an essential
quality of cosmical bodies. The visibility of
countless stars is no argument against the
invisibility of countless others.” This grand
conception led Peters to compute more ac-
curately the orbit, and to assign the place
of the invisible companion of Sirius. In 1862
Alvan G. Clark was testing a new 18-inch
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