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Historical Surveys of the Asteroids

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The day before Piazzi discovered Ceres was December 31, 1800. In 1991, Laurence Lerner wrote a poem entitled “A Happy New Year,” which he placed on that last day of 1800. “I steal the time to sleep,” he wrote, to “calculate Pythagorean harmonic mysteries.” And so this series of books on the first four asteroids ends where it began – with Pythagoras and the music of the spheres.

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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). Historical Surveys of the Asteroids. In: Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58118-7_13

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