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iisooveries made U !l.r-h.l system of 



> small I'l.meU, Ceres and Pal In*, discovered 

 >1 :u,.| isn; hnvw strangely giv h*,th of 







llrr*rh.-l. AS ),,- f,,tu.i th.-ir .h<- hi.,. thoM , laid 

 itara, spurious an-1 not measurable; a 

 lembled small stars so much as hardly to I- 



<1 from them even leacope*," a* 



to be* 4 comets in difi^uiHc," he ooiutidered planet 

 tiomer as aj n-1 j-r.-j ,^, ,i to call 



Lhein asteroid*. Strange to say, th< inzzi 



ind Gibers, who diHOovered these small bodies, was 

 Charged with in- suggestion of 



liiiiinuiivc, to cast a tli- achievement ot 



i comparison with his own glory as th- 

 i the great planet, Uranus. A more atupM 

 most generous heart could scarcely be 

 imagined He predicted that the association of astro- 

 nomers which had b< ued on the Continent to 

 hunt for more of them would be successful: "V 

 may soon be disco \ formed the Royal Skx 

 F wo were caught \\nhin th< next five years, Jun. 

 Vesta, 1 'i. -'retold 1. h 1 in 1802 

 remained an unfulfilled \n ro than t 

 yr.irv lie himself join* -<i in th- liun- 

 have already made five reviews of the Zodiac without 

 detecting any of these concealed objects," Yet he was 

 slandered as envious of t of others who had 

 loot what he confessed h'-ha-l ilthough 

 in 1813 ho told Thomas Campbell, the poet, that " there 

 1 Phil. Trttns. for 1802, pp. 228-30. 



