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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
245
Observation
upon
another
such
body,
of
April
4,
1876,
by
M.
Weber,
of
Berlin.
As
to
this
observation,
Leverrier
was
informed
by
Wolf,
in
August,
1876
(L'Annee
Scientifique,
1876-7).
It
made
no
difference,
so
far
as
can
be
known,
to
this
notable
positivist.
Two
other
observations
noted
by
Hind
and
Denning--London
Times,
Nov.
3,
1871,
and
March
26,
1873.
Monthly
Notices
of
the
R.A.S.,
20-100:
Standacher,
February,
1762;
Lichtenberg,
Nov.
19,
1762;
Hoffman,
May,
1764;
Dangos,
Jan.
18,
1798;
Stark,
Feb.
12,
1820.
An
observation
by
Schmidt,
Oct.
11,
1847,
is
said
to
be
doubtful:
but,
upon
page
192,
it
is
said
that
this
doubt
had
arisen
because
of
a
mistaken
translation,
and
two
other
observations
by
Schmidt
are
given:
Oct.
14,
1849,
and
Feb.
18,
1850--also
an
observation
by
Lofft,
Jan.
6,
1818.
Observation
by
Steinheibel,
at
Vienna,
April
27,
1820
(Monthly
Notices,
1862).
Haase
had
collected
reports
of
twenty
observations
like
Lescarbault's.
The
list
was
published
in
1872,
by
Wolf.
Also
there
are
other
instances
like
Gruthinsen's:
Amer.
Jour.
Sci.,
2-28-446:
Report
by
Pastorff
that
he
had
seen
twice
in
1836,
and
once
in
1837,
two
round
spots
of
unequal
size
moving
across
the
sun,
changing
position
relatively
to
each
other,
and
taking
a
different
course,
if
not
orbit,
each
time:
that,
in
1834,
he
had
seen
similar
bodies
pass
six
times
across
the
disk
of
the
sun,
looking
very
much
like
Mercury
in
his
transits.
March
22,
1876--
But
to
point
out
Leverrier's
poverty-stricken
average--or
discovering
planets
upon
a
fifty
per
cent.
basis--would
be
to
point
out
the
low
percentage
of
realness
in
the
quasi-myth-stuff
of
which
the
whole
system
is
composed.
We
do
not
accuse
the
text-books
of
omitting
this
fiasco,
but
we
do
note
that
theirs
is
the
conventional
adaptation
here
of
all
beguilers
who
are
in
difficulties--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
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