但是，在勒维烈成功发现海王星之前不久，贝塞尔不幸去世。

But he died, shortly before Leverrier's discovery.

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我们有幸亲历了勒维烈的成功，他仅仅通过计算，就发现了距离数百亿英里之外的星球，凭的是智慧和探索精神。

We live to see the triumph of Leverrier's being able to discover with his mental eye, by means of computation only, a planet at a distance of millions of miles from him.

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到了1846年，当勒维烈通过测算成功发现新的行星——海王星的时候，他也推算出天王星是太阳系里最遥远的行星。

Up to the year 1846, when Leverrier made his great discovery, it was believed that Uranus was the most distant planet revolving around the sun.

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