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I SHALL feel obliged if some of your correspondents would inform me if, with the exception of Grant's Physical Astronomy, there is any treatise or encyclopædic article on Astronomy, published in this country before 1864, where the superior limit of the eccentricity of the earth's orbit, as determined by Lagrange or by Leverrier, is given; or even any reference made to the researches of these geometricians on the subject.
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ELLIS, J. Eccentricity of the Earth's Orbit. Nature 5, 422 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005422d0
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