344 SPECIAL RESULTS IN THE URANOLOGICAL 



SPECIAL NOTICE OF THE SEVERAL PLANETS AND THEIR SATEL- 

 LITES AS PARTS OF THE SOLAR DOMAIN. 



THE especial object of a physical description of the Universe 

 js, as I have already remarked, the assemblage, both in 

 the sidereal and telluric range of phenomena, of all the 

 most important numerical results resting on adequate and 

 accurate investigation up to the present time viz. the 

 middle of the nineteenth century. The forms and the 

 movements of the physical Universe are here depicted as 

 Created, Existing, Measured. Neither the bases on which 

 the obtained numerical results repose, nor the cosmogonic 

 conjectures which, in the varying states of mechanical and 

 physical knowledge, have arisen in different ages respecting 

 the mode of formation, nor questions relating to the myste- 

 rious act of Creation itself, belong, in a strict sense, to the 

 domain of these empirical deductions (Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 

 2931, 63, and 87 ; Eng. ed p. 3033, 57, and 75). 



The Sun. 



I have stated in the preceding pages (Bd. iii. S. 378 

 405 ; Eng. ed. p. 267 295) both the numerical results and 

 the views now prevailing respecting the physical constitution 

 of the central body of our system. It only remains to give, 

 from observations made since those pages were written, some 



