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MANCHESTER. Literary and Philosophical Society, October 5.—Mr. Francis Jones, president, in the chair.—A new binary progression of the planetary distances, and on the mutability of the solar system: Dr. H. Wilde. In his table of planetary orbits the author has adopted the radius vector of Mercury as the unit to which the other planetary distances should be referred, the terrestrial unit being a survival of the geocentric system of the universe. The change in the unit of distance has revealed a new binary progression of the planetary distances nearer the observations than that of Bode's law.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 81, 509–510 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081509a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/081509a0