Memoirs of the American Academy of Art and Sciences, Vol. 14

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the American Academy of Art and Sciences, Vol. 14: No. 1Investigation into the cause of such commensurability reveals an important law: Each planet has formed the next in order, of necessity at exactly one of these commensurable points, at the same time displacing it slightly sunward. In other words, the positions of the planets are not haphazard but have been determined seriatim each by its predecessor, thus showing that the solar system is an articulated whole, an inorganic organism, which not only evolved but evolved in a definite order, the steps of which celestial mechanics enable us to retrace.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.