A ROMANCE OF ASTRONOMY
Cambridge has lost one of its olilo."t inhabitants in the pe.rsmi of Mr*. Adsuna, the widow of the late Professor John Couch Adams, whose name recalls one of the romances of astronomy, Professor Adams, who was Lowndcsm Professor of Astronomy, by an exerekc of sciomihc, imagination conceived tlmt certain utcguhiities in the movements ■■£ tho known planets were caused by Hie presence of another planet unknown us yet Id science. Following up his wild iuicm with patient and accurate, calculations, he found I hat if his hypothesis were correct the unknown planet would at a certain dale come ivffhin range ot the telescope, ami he. a'ked cevUin scientific friends at a .definite time to look at a certain point in the heaven*. They looked, and tho planet, unseen before, was actually there. This was the wonderful discovery nf the planet Neptune, a triumph of logical induction and miiiheniiitical prediction,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 8
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152A ROMANCE OF ASTRONOMY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 8
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