It's not the lens, it is inside Abbyy. I OCR'd the same page twice using FR 8.0. It will produce either this:
 
> interval among the planets. Speaking loosely,
> we may say that each outer planet is twice as
> far from the Sun as is the next inner one. May
> not the order here mentioned—may not the law
> of Bode—be deduced from consideration of the
> analogy suggested by me as having place between
 
or this:
 
> interval among the planets.    Speaking loosely
>
> 7»r7rJ \f ^ ^ 0Uter Planet i« twice as
> far from the Sun as is the next inner one.   May
>
> T*nl°rier}T ^fi^ed-maj, not the law
> or node—be deduced from consideration of the
>
> thfy SU/gefted bVme as having place between
 
The difference depends on whether FR rotates the image by 2 degrees before the recognition starts.
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From: don kretz
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For comparison, here's my undeskewed cut-and-paste abbyy
read of the self-same page. Perhaps their lens was dirty ...



EUREKA


115

come the eight Asteroids (Ceres, Juno, Vesta,
Pallas, Astræa, Flora, Iris, and Hebe) at an
average distance of about 250 millions. Then we
have Jupiter, distant 490 millions; then Saturn,
900 millions; then Uranus, 19 hundred millions;
finally Neptune, lately discovered, and revolving
at a distance, say of 28 hundred millions. Leav-
ing Neptune out of the account—of which as yet
we know little accurately and which is, possibly,
one of a system of Asteroids—it will be seen that,
within certain limits, there exists an order of
interval among the planets. Speaking loosely,
we may say that each outer planet is twice as
far from the Sun as is the next inner one. May
not the order here mentioned—may not the law
of Bode—he deduced from consideration of the
analogy suggested by me as having place between
the solar discharge of rings and the mode of the
atomic irradiation?

The numbers hurriedly mentioned in this sum-
mary of distance, it is folly to attempt compre-
hending, unless in the light of abstract arithmet-
ical facts. They are not practically tangible
ones. They convey no precise ideas. I have
stated that Neptune, the planet farthest from
the Sun, revolves about him at a distance of 2S
hundred millions of miles. So far good:—I
have stated a mathematical fact; and, without
comprehending it in the least, we may put it to
use—mathematically. But in mentioning, even,
that the Moon revolves about the Earth at the
comparatively trifling distance of 237,000 miles,
I entertained no expectation of giving any one


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