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In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe Paperback - 1997
by Richard P. Baum; William Sheehan
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Here is a beautiful blend of detective story, character profile, and history of science that will keep readers glued to the pages as they explore this fascinating and largely forgotten chapter of astronomy.
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- Title In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe
- Author Richard P. Baum; William Sheehan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 310
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer, New York
- Date 1997-01-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780306455674 / 0306455676
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.77 x 1.22 in (21.56 x 14.66 x 3.10 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Planets - Miscellanea, Vulcan (Hypothetical planet)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96045674
- Dewey Decimal Code 523.4
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- Booklist, 05/15/1997, Page 1549
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Paperback / softback. New. Presented for the first time in popular form is the fascinating true story of the search for the phantom planet Vulcan. As with legends of "the lost continent of Atlantis," scientists and dreamers alike have sought to prove that Vulcan is more than just a myth. Historians of astronomy Richard Baum and William Sheehan have combed the continents, digging through dusty letters and journals, to unravel this mysterious and captivating tale. The planet first assumed a shadowy 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 it was lost. Still it…
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