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Neptunist   Listen
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Neptunist, Neptunian  n.  (Geol.) One who adopts the Neptunian theory.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Neptunist" Quotes from Famous Books



... from perturbations of Mercury, but though prematurely christened Vulcan, this hypothetical nursling of the sun still haunts the realm of the undiscovered, along with certain equally hypothetical trans-Neptunian planets whose existence has been suggested by "residual perturbations" of Uranus, and by the movements of comets. No other veritable additions of the sun's planetary family have been made in our century, beyond the finding ...
— A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... Planet.—Professor Asaph Hall says: "It is known to me that at least two American astronomers, armed with powerful telescopes, have been searching quite recently for a trans-Neptunian planet. These searches have been caused by the fact that Professor Newcomb's tables of Uranus and Neptune already begin to differ from observation. But are we to infer from these errors of the planetary tables ...
— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren



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