"For more than sixty years after the publication of the Principia astronomers were puzzled to account for the motion of the lunar perigee, simply because they could not conceive that terms of the second and higher orders, with respect to the disturbing force, produced more than half of it. For a similar reason, the great inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn remained a long time unexplained."
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George William Hill
George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician, who won the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1909.
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