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NOTES. 



original work of Bonnet there is not even an allusion to such a law of dis- 

 tances. (Compare also Bode, Anleit. zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels, 

 2te Aufl. 1772, S. 462.) 



( 524 ) p. 321. As Titius made the distance from the Sun to Saturn, then 

 regarded as the outermost planet, = 100, the several distances according to 

 the so-called progression, 



4, 4 + 3, 4 + 6, 4 + 12, 4 + 24, 4 + 48, ought to be, 

 Venus. Earth. Mars. 



Mercury. 

 TJJTT 



Small Planets. Jupiter, 

 unr T5TT 



whence, taking the distance of Saturn from the Sun at 197'3 millions of 

 Germau geographical miles (789'2 Engl.), we have the following distances of 

 the planets from the Sun, estimated according to the same scale : 



( 52S ) p. 321. Wurm, inBode's Astron. Jahrbuch fur das J. 1790, S. 168 ; 

 and Bode, Von dem neuen zwischen Mars und Jupiter entdeckten achten 

 Hauptplaneten des Sonnensystems, 1802, S. 45. With Wurm's numerical 

 correction, the series of distances from the Sun is : 

 Parts. 



Mercury 387 



Venus 387 



Earth 387 



Mars 387 



Small planets 387 



Jupiter 387 



Saturn 387 



Uranus 387 



Neptune 387 



