20 Apr 1847
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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1847
Page
1
The notice lists annual and short term prices for the Huron Reflector with Dolley and Fifty Cents per year paid in advance Two Dollars or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if delayed. It states no paper until arrearages are paid and singles at 5 Cents. Advertising rates per square and multiple insertions are announced with unclear formatting.
An oration on Copernican astronomy outlines Kepler’s discovery that planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus and Newton’s law of gravitation. It notes Kepler’s squares-cubes relation and the shift from circular to elliptic orbits, followed by Newton’s unifying force binding planets to the Sun.
A long excerpt discusses Newtonian gravity, planetary orbits, and the progression of celestial mechanics. It recounts how Kepler, Le Verrier, and Herschel advanced understanding, details the discovery of Neptune’s influence, the motion of the Moon, and the creation of predictive celestial tables.
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