Urbain Le Verrier Quotes

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.

Urbain Le Verrier

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"The Planet Neptune: An Exposition and History". Book by John Pringle Nichol, 1848.

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Urbain Le Verrier

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Born: March 11, 1811
Died: September 23, 1877
Occupation: Mathematician
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