In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s Clockwork Universe

Richard P. Baum · William Sheehan

Nov 2013 · Springer

Über dieses E-Book

Reality against a backdrop of war and revolution early in the nineteenth century. Le Verrier, the autocratic Director of the Paris Observatory, had unveiled a problem with the motion of the planet Mercury. The indications were of a planet closer to the sun than Mercury. Incredibly, the prediction was immediately fulfilled by an obscure French country doctor using no more than a homemade telescope. The planet, named for the Roman god of fire, was no sooner discovered than.