A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century / Fourth Edition

by Agnes M. Clerke

[833] Ibid., Nos. 2,263 and 2,277. See also Tisserand in Ann. Bur. des Long., 1882, p. 729.

[834] See J. Bauschinger's Untersuchungen (1884), summarised in Bull. Astr., t. i., p. 506, and Astr. Nach., No. 2,594. Newcomb finds the anomalous motion of the perihelion to be even larger (43′ instead of 38′) than Leverrier made it. Month. Not., February, 1884, p. 187. Harzer's attempt to account for it in Astr. Nach., No. 3,030, is more ingenious than successful.

[835] Jour. des Sçavans, December, 1667, p. 122.

[836] Élémens d'Astr., p. 525. Cf. Chandler, Pop. Astr., February, 1897, p. 393.

[837] Beobachtungen über die sehr beträchtlichen Gebirge und Rotation der Venus, 1792, p. 35. Schröter's final result in 1811 was 23h. 21m. 7·977s. Monat. Corr., Bd. xxv., p. 367.

[838] Astr. Nach., No. 404.

[839] Rendiconti del R. Istituto Lombardo, t. xxiii., serie ii.

[840] Astr. Nach., No. 3,304.

[841] Bothkamp Beobachtungen, Heft ii., p. 120.

[842] Comptes Rendus, t. cxi., p. 542; t. cxxii., p. 395.