Schreiben des Herrn L. Swift an den Herausgeber

✍ Scribed by Lewis Swift

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1879
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 332 KB
• Volume: 95
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-6337
• DOI: 10.1002/asna.18790952102

✦ Synopsis

Band 95. Nr. 2277. 2 1. Schreiben des Herrn L. Swift an den Herausgeber. I have read with no little surprise, the letter of Dr. C. R. F. Peters in Nr. 2253 of the Astr. Nachr. on the alleged discovery of Intra-Mercurial planets during the total eclipse of July 39 1878 by Prof. Watson and myself. Almost the entire drift of his arguments is an attempt to prove that Watson saw nothing but the well known stare d and c Cancri. With a single stroke of his pen, and with a notable lack of courtesy and generosity, he lays my observations trailing in the dust," oontemptuously remarking that, lat ,,In Mr. Swift's

sucmssive publications is perceivable so singular a gradation in the statements, that Prof. Watson's communioations alone a n be the subject of a scientifia discwsion.'

And Znd ,,Mr. Swift's first public statement was written after the telegraph had made known Prof. Watsons observation near d Cancri.' And 3" ,,May be that Mr. 8wift while endeavoring to release his telescope