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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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I
think
Leverrier
was
translated
to
the
Positive
Absolute.
The
disregarded:
Observation,
of
July
26,
1819,
by
Gruthinson--but
that
was
of
two
bodies
that
crossed
the
sun
together--
Nature,
14-469:
That,
according
to
the
astronomer,
J.R.
Hind,
Benjamin
Scott,
City
Chamberlain
of
London,
and
Mr.
Wray,
had,
in
1847,
seen
a
body
similar
to
"Vulcan"
cross
the
sun.
Similar
observation
by
Hind
and
Lowe,
March
12,
1849
(L'Annee
Scientifique,
1876-9).
Nature,
14-505:
Body
of
apparent
size
of
Mercury,
seen,
Jan.
29,
1860,
by
F.A.R.
Russell
and
four
other
observers,
crossing
the
sun.
De
Vico's
observation
of
July
12,
1837
(Observatory,
2-424).
L'Annee
Scientifique,
1865-16:
That
another
amateur
astronomer,
M.
Coumbray,
of
Constantinople,
had
written
to
Leverrier,
that,
upon
the
8th
of
March,
1865,
he
had
seen
a
black
point,
sharply
outlined,
traverse
the
disk
of
the
sun.
It
detached
itself
from
a
group
of
sun
spots
near
the
limb
of
the
sun,
and
took
48
minutes
to
reach
the
other
limb.
Figuring
upon
the
diagram
sent
by
M.
Coumbray,
a
central
passage
would
have
taken
a
little
more
than
an
hour.
This
observation
was
disregarded
by
Leverrier,
because
his
formula
required
about
four
times
that
velocity.
The
point
here
is
that
these
other
observations
are
as
authentic
as
those
that
Leverrier
included;
that,
then,
upon
data
as
good
as
the
data
of
"Vulcan,"
there
must
be
other
"Vulcans"--the
heroic
and
defiant
disregard,
then,
of
trying
to
formulate
one,
omitting
the
others,
which,
by
orthodox
doctrine,
must
have
influenced
it
greatly,
if
all
were
in
the
relatively
narrow
space
between
Mercury
and
the
sun.
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