In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s Clockwork UniverseSpringer, 9. nóv. 2013 - 310 síður 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. |
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Le Grand Newton | 16 |
Triumvirate | 30 |
The Celestial Decades | 37 |
PLANETS DROWNED IN NIGHT | 43 |
Le Maître Mathématicien | 63 |
Le Verriers Planet | 76 |
Triumph and Controversy | 107 |
Le Roi Est Mort | 178 |
The Planet Hunters Come to Indian | 194 |
Dr Peters Confronts the Wild Geese | 209 |
Legend into History | 224 |
LAGRANGES LONG SHADOW | 246 |
The Unending Quest | 255 |
Chronology | 263 |
Notes and References | 269 |
Le Verriers Unfinished Business | 127 |
The Doctors TaleVulcan | 145 |
The Phantom of an Anomaly | 162 |
Select Bibliography | 297 |
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In Search Of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost In Newton's Clockwork Universe Richard Baum,William Sheehan Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2003 |
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