Vulcan | The Planet That Didn't Exist
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Published 2021-10-25
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SOURCES:
Books cited / recommended to learn more:
The Hunt for Vulcan by Ben Levenson
In Search of Planet Vulcan by Richard Baum and William Sheehan
The Ascent of Gravity by Marcus Chown
Le Verrier — Magnificent and Detestable Astronomer by James Lequeux
Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century by Stella Cottam and Wayne Orchiston
Other non-book sources (limited selection):
Transferring scientific discovery to the public: The intramercurial planet Vulcan in 1860 by Hsiang-Fu Huang
When Lack of Evidence Is Evidence of Lack by Neil Pickering
Einstein's perihelion formula and its generalization by Maurizio M. D'Eliseo
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Le_Verri…
www.space.com/6941-theory-galileo-discovered-neptu…
www.fetedelascience.fr/qui-est-le-docteur-lescarba…
plus.maths.org/content/changing-picture-gravity
www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1303/
www.iau.org/public/videos/detail/iau2006closing/
www.space.com/2791-pluto-demoted-longer-planet-hig…
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/vulcan-…
as well as various records from CRAS and newspaper archives.
PHOTO CREDITS:
Algol Visualisation: • History and Future of the Solar System
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Video of 2017 Total Eclipse by Steve Sheridan, CC BY 3.0,
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Images of Laplace, Pascal and Hôtel des Invalides provided by Wellcomeimages.org, CC BY 4.0,
Video of 2015 Partial Eclipse by David Bucher, CC BY-SA 4.0,
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