Excerpt from Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 13: Nov. 12, 1852

These equations are integrated by mechanical quadratures, the successive numerical values of the quantity under the sign of the double integral in each equation being corrected by a peculiar process, founded on the theory of finite differences.

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