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"By addreamng this letter to you, Sir, aa President 



Koyal Society, I Uke the moat effectual method 



une to the Literati of Europe 



1 hope they will receive with pleasure, I have 



honour to be, with the greatest reapect, etc., 



A 



When Horachel (Uncovered the planet Uranua be had 

 received oar and no bounty fn.i. King or 



peopl li-l t)> extend his patronage to 



him til! fifteen m..nths had elapsed. Galileo waa in 

 reccij mdsome allowance from the Or 



hen he diacovered the satellite* of Jupiter, 

 m the Medicean Stan. It waa not only 

 pardonable to do this ; it waa moat natural. But science 

 refuaed to endorse the flattery: and * men, 



especially on the Con \vere equally unwilling to 



accept the name proposed by Herschel for the i. 



verod planet For many years it continued to be 

 called the Georgian Star, or the Georgium SMus, in this 

 country, though not without strong protests. While 

 men in Britain allowed that "Georg< 



1 has many titles to be remembered by the fri< n-ls 

 of science, to which few of his contemporaries have 



re tensions," they ma i We shall therefore 



do well to anticipate the decision of posterity, by at 

 once adopting a term that must ult 

 No one thinks of perpetuating the name Georgian now. 

 Uranus has displaced it, and justly. The judgment of 

 posterity has gone against the name proposed by the 

 discoverer and that of Hcraclid, generously proposed 



ilande. Heathenism and an 



ne must decide for himself whether 



