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A Disturbing Inclination

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In 1595 Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was the first to posit the existence of a planet between Mars and Jupiter , but it was the Swiss astronomer and mathematician Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705; Fig. 1.1) who first offered actual numbers relating to its orbital properties.

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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). A Disturbing Inclination. In: Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32848-5_1

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