Rough ways made smooth : a series of familiar essays on scientific subjects / by Richard A. Proctor.

  • Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
1893
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Credit: Rough ways made smooth : a series of familiar essays on scientific subjects / by Richard A. Proctor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that object been placed either as shown in fig. 2 or fig. 3- Hence Professor Swift considers that both the stars he himself saw were planets, and that he did not see Theta at all. The reasomng m the last five paragraphs of the above essay would not be in the least affected if we adopted Professor Swift's conclusion, that four and not three intra-Mercurial planets were detected during the eclipse of July last. Yet later Professor Peters of Clinton has indicated reasons for believing that while Watson simply mistook for planets the two fixed stars Theta and Zeta Cancri, Professor Swift saw no planets at all. This interpretation would account fully, though not very satisfactorily, for all that is mysterious in the two narratives.]