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This excerpt from an 1835 poem by the English journalist and poet James Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), which also includes the names of all four asteroids (see Chap. 5), is set at the beginning of the cosmos. Its reference to “mystick progress” represents a fitting metaphor as we begin an exploration of the Romantic scientific aspect of early nineteenth century asteroid studies.
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On high our chariots then were set, For seasons and for years,
Whose mystick progress echoes yet The musick of the spheres.
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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). The Music of the Spheres. In: Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32875-1_4
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