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and Velocity of the Solar Motion.

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ture has been alluded to in the same Paper.[1] The insulation ascribed to the sun relates merely to a supposed binary combination with some neighbouring star; and it has now been proved by an example of Arcturus, that the solar motion cannot be occasioned or accounted for by a periodical revolution of the sun and this or any other star about their common centre of gravity.

  1. ↑ Phil. Trans, for 1802, page 479.

errata

In Table VII. of the first part of this Paper, star Aldebaran, the two last columns,

for 13° 18′ 58″, read 13° 41′ 48″.

for 0,02842, read 0,02922.

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