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 | | presentes par divers savans, torn, vii., 1776), Laplace announced his celebrated conclusion of the invariability of planetary mean motions, carrying the proof as far as the cubes of the eccentricities and inclinations. |
 | | This was the first and most important step in the establishment of the stability of the solar system. |
 | | Laplace treated the subject from the point of view of Lhe gradual aggregation and cooling of a mass of matter, and demon~trated that the form which such a mass would ultimately assume aiust be an ellipsoid of revolution whose equator was determined by Lhe primitive plane of maximum areas. |
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