“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.”
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Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Le Verrier was a French mathematician and astronomer renowned for his work on the theory of gravity and his discovery of the planet Neptune. His contributions to the understanding of celestial mechanics were significant, and he is considered one of the most important astronomers of the 19th century. more
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