Titlebook: In Search of Planet Vulcan; The Ghost in Newton’ Richard Baum,William Sheehan Book 1997 Richard Baum and William Sheehan 1997 Host.planet.u

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Le Maître Mathématiciens ultra of the solar system. In terrestrial affairs, too, change was in the air. In France, the old order, developed by imperceptible degrees over millenia and persisting ever since feudal times, was in disarray. The chaos and upheaval of the French Revolution and the beheading of France’s Bourbon K

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Le Verrier’s Planet “a worrisome anomaly at the very heart of astronomy”. The nature of the problem had begun to emerge as early as May 1782, when Lalande noted that the planet newly discovered by Herschel did not appear to be strictly adhering to its prescribed path. At the time, this concern caused no great measure

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The Doctor’s Tale—Vulcan!December 22, 1859, Lescarbault informed the imperial astronomer that the planet Le Verrier has inferred from the anomalous advance of the perihelion of Mercury actually exists. Lescarbault has already observed it in transit across the Sun on the previous March 26, 1859.

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Le Roi Est MortParis Observatory. Within its formidable redoubt sat the great mathematician, meditating his stratagems. His resourcefulness had been sorely tested, but he would not be found wanting. Possessed of unusual stubbornness (“increased difficulties ... far from deterring, seemed rather to stimulate him to

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The Planet Hunters Come to Indian Countryerrier, Peters otherwise. Interest had never been so intense as on the eve of the Great Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878, the last total eclipse of the sun visible from the United States during the 19th century. Fanned by Le Verrier’s recent transit predictions, public interest in Vulcan was at its he

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