I had occasion today to consult Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), Robert Chambers's very famous and influential account of cosmic and natural history which includes, among many things, a kind of proto-evolutionary theory. Google Books has the American third edition, from 1845, which seemed to me close enough. This is how the book opens:
Wait: eleven planets? This is long before Pluto, so .... which eleven did Chambers have in mind?
The eleven planets were the classical six (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn), plus Uranus (discovered 1781), Ceres (discovered 1801), Pallas (1802), Juno (1804), and Vesta (1807).
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