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2.
Letter from Ende to Olbers, 6 April 1802, Bremen University Archives. We find an early instance of the suggestion that a comet may have destroyed a planet in the Mars—Jupiter gap in the unpublished manuscript by Thomas Wright of Durham written between 1771 and the author's death in 1786: “That comets are capable of distroying such worlds as may chance to fall their way, is, from their vast magnitude, velocity, fiery substance, not at all to be doubted, and it is more than probable from the great and unoccupied distance betwixt ye planet Mars and Jupiter some world may have met with such a final dissolution”. Wright, Second or singular thoughts upon the theory of the universe, ed. from the manuscript by HoskinM. A. (London, 1968), 42.
3.
Letter from Olbers to Gauss, 23 April 1802, Göttingen University Archives.
4.
Letter from Olbers to Gauss, 15 May 1802, Göttingen University Archives.
5.
Letter from Gauss to Olbers, 18 May 1802, Göttingen University Archives.
6.
Letter from Gauss to Maskelyne, 19 May 1802, Cambridge University Archives.
7.
Letter from Olbers to William Herschel, 17 May 1802, Herschel Archives, Royal Astronomical Society.
8.
BeattieW., Life and letters of Thomas Campbell (New York, 1850), ii, 234.
9.
HoldenEdward, Sir William Herschel: His life and works (New York, 1881), 108.
10.
MC, v, issue of June 1802, 598.
11.
MC, vi, issue of July 1802, 87–8.
12.
HahnRoger, Pierre Simon Laplace: A determined scientist (London, 2005).
13.
Letter from Olbers to Gauss, 12 December 1804, Göttingen University Archives.
14.
LaplaceP. S., Exposition du système du monde, 3rd edn (Paris, 1808). For a study of the evolution of Laplace's thoughts on cosmogony, see JakiStanley, “The five forms of Laplace's cosmogony”, American journal of physics, xliv (1976), 4–11.
15.
Letter from Olbers to Bessel, 10 July 1812, Göttingen University Archives.
16.
Letter from Olbers to Gauss, 18 July 1812, Göttingen University Archives.
17.
PiazziGiuseppe, Lezioni elementari di astronomia (Palermo, 1817), 202. Translated into German by WestphalJohann Heinrich, with an introduction by GaussCarl, in Lehrbuch der Astronomie (Berlin, 1822).
18.
LagrangeJ. L., “Sur l'origine des comètes”, Connaissance des temps … pour l'an 1814 (1812), 211.
19.
BabbageCharles, Lecture 8, “On the minor planets”, Royal Institution London (1815). British Library Add Ms. 37203 ff. 215–51.
20.
LagrangeJ. L., Mécanique analytique, ii (Paris, 1815).
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23.
Letter from Olbers to Gauss, 30 September 1804, Göttingen University Archives.
24.
Letter from Olbers to Gauss, 10 October 1804, Göttingen University Archives.
25.
MC, x, issue of November 1804, 467.
26.
GouldB. A., “On the orbits of the asteroids”, The American journal of science and arts, vi (1848), 28–36.
27.
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28.
RegnérLars, Observationes in hypothesin celeb. Olbers de planetarum Cereris, Palladis et Junonis origine (Uppsala, 1806).
29.
RegnérLars, “Bemerkungen über die vom Ursprung der drey neuen Planeten, Ceres Pallas und Juno, bekannt gewordenen Hypothese”, BAJ, 1808, 234–7.
30.
Cunningham, op. cit. (ref. 22).
31.
HuthJ., “Aus einem Schreiben des Hrn. Hofrath Huth aus Frankfurth an der Oder vom 21 Sept. 1804”, BAJ, 1806, 265–8.
32.
SchroeterJohann, Lilienthal Beobachtungen der neu entdeckten Planeten Ceres, Pallas und Juno (Göttingen, 1805).
33.
von ZachFranz, “Über den neuen vom Dr. Olbers in Bremen entdeckten Planeten Vesta”, MC, xv (1807), May issue, 502–8.
34.
OrianiBarnaba, “Osservazioni del nuovo pianeta Vesta”, Ephemerides astronomicae ad meridianum mediolanensem, 1809, 3–10.
35.
Letter of 15 February 1810 from Mr. to DelamétherieJ. C., Journal de physique, lxx (1810), 208–11.
36.
“On the action of the electric fluid, by which an iron cylinder an inch and half thick was torn asunder: In a letter from Mr. to J. C. Delamétherie”, Journal of natural philosophy, xxv (1810), 285–8.
37.
DelamétherieJ. C., “Observations on the preceding experiments”, Ibid., 288–90.
38.
“New view of the solar system”, Southern literary messenger, iv (1838), 769–70.
39.
“New view of the tides”, Ibid., 747–50.
40.
BrewsterDavid, “On the origin of the four new planets, and of meteoric stones”, The Edinburgh encyclopedia, Section X (1815). Brewster's argument in favour of the explosion hypothesis is also printed in the almanac Times telescope for 1814.
41.
FrendWilliam, Evening amusements; or, the beauty of the heavens displayed (London, 1815).
42.
NumbersR. L., “The nebular hypothesis of Isaac Orr”, Journal for the history of astronomy, iii (1972), 49–51.
43.
OrrIsaac, “An essay on the formation of the universe”, American journal of science, vi (1823), 128–49.
44.
London literary gazette and journal of belles lettres, no. 399, 11 September 1824, 586–7.
45.
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