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To the people of the late 19th century, VuIcan was real. It was a planet. It had theoretical credibility and had actually been seen. Even textbooks accorded it a chapter. When the speIl was finaHy broken in the early 20th century, it dropp d to the floor of his tory, where it has gathered dust, redundant, unwanted. It was something best forgotten, an embarrassment. In simple terms, that is all true. The truth, however, is of two Frenchmen. Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, the imperial mathematician who discovered planets from bis desk, and Edmond Modeste Lescarbault, an obscure country physician who one sunny afternoon in March 1859 fulfilled his dream of other worlds by discovering Vulcan. This is the planet that grew out of Le Verrier's attempt to extend planetary theory to the limits of gravitational medlanics, specifically his struggle with the errant motion of Mercury, the innermost planet. Again, that is only part of the story. For the whole affair derived substance from Le Verrier's reluctance to question the integrity of the ancien regime of the lawgiver himself, Sir Isaac Newton. This plunged astronomy into a long period of intellectual trench warfare. Qnly when astronomers

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

Author

Richard Baum, William Sheehan (auth.)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306455674

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Astronomy, Physics