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Excerpt from An Investigation of the Orbit of Neptune: With General Tables of Its Motion
Approximate elements of this planet, neglecting the effect of perturbations, were computed by several astronomers within a year or two after its discovery. But the work of preparing a theory which should include the perturbations produced by all the other planets seems to have been left entirely In the hands of Professor Peirce and Mr. Sears C. Walker.
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