Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-18

How should the difference of the theories be esima-
ted BY referring il 10 the distance which object
determine When, for the purpose Of striking the magna-
ion Of the public, express This difference in leagues eurs
de pose that is TO say, when refer the slow
which crawl the surface Of GLOBE adopting
process unworthy Of IN astronomer.
" Bot in 1912, made Of only fourteenth part
in the distance in 1922 and 1892 sixteenth in 1912
thirteenth but Of tcn which might neverte-
less have attained without mourning censure from any
"The direction than tho distance
so should have been for il the direction had been false
nothing could have compensated the which would have
thence resulted the attraction which Neptune upon
Uranus. But If we should place planet little far of
in given direction, the resulting from that the
quantity Of attraction be Immediately destroyed by max
ing the planet little larger This is precisely what happen
ed have placed Neptune little far OIL but have made
1t also something large. might have placed all The
intermediate places between the orbits placed
nearer by diminishing its size.
:" But what am saying have made Neptune a little
too large forgot that such the third grief Let
see, meanwhile.
's3d Is il true that the theorec mass Of Neptune differs
from the deduced from the observation Of the satellite
20 such extent TO form irresistible argument against
the identity OF the theoretc Neptune with the Neptune Of eb
| seryation No, that is false.
"Let US use figures again.
"Accorng to NJ Sruve the deluced from the sael-
lite is loo Of tho which had predicted. But will
agree, II be insisted TO take at 52l00, point which
only be reached by choosing from the different results OBJ
tanned those which lead TO the greatest dsagtemens de-
corresponds variation Of only onefh 10 the diameter
Neptune IL can only be by assembling difficulties OF the
kind which have been presented in the masses Of the other
planets.
The mass Of Uranus has also been determined by two
methods by the action which this planet pouces Saturn
and by the consideration Of lis satellites Well the second
Of the values thus deducsd is only 7500 Of the other Ne
yerheess IN arriving at these results direct observations og
Uranus Of forty years were discussed and disposed Of while
had not one single observation Of Neptune In The one
case, all required be found from the perturbation which
Saturn suffers from Uranus the Of the latter while
from the perturbation which Neptune produces upon Uranus
have obliged deduce the direction, the distance and
the Of The planet Might suppose that there two
planets Uranus This should I've the conclusion be logical
Therefore, the WHOLE the direction the distance from the
and the Of Neptune that is say the only three
determinations which had right TO demand from the pro-
miscs exact, according my theory beyond all hope
Tie Neptune which they have found. well that for
which searched perfectly for the peUrbatons Of
Uranus. This great accusation, then, which has made
much noise, falls back the nothing from which should
never have arisen
"And here I might conclude but will proceed little
further show how the public is abused by having mrrpred
to their eyes that pretended enormous and
heard OF
Around the principal star called vsmma, Of he consel
Iaion Of the Virgin and under The influence Of il action
there revoves another to which observations made be-
tween 1918 and 1885, embracing interval Of hundred
and years, had assigned certain ellptca orbit
Ten years observations have succd make
us abandon entirely this first ellpse and replace il Ivy
whose surface about oneh that Of tho first Will il
be said that the which had been observed before 1895
the observed since that epoch The
we're, beside both assigned by the same usous astronomers
Sir John Ierschel do not know that they have ever in
his own country, rproached him with deducing from his
observations other results than those which they contained
And among there such thst lis may be
represented indfeenty either by paraboa an elipse
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| The "Comptes Reudus' do not admit Of plstes My
charts engraved and shall appear soon with
more complete publication which shall make this
subject.