The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting by Tom Standage

The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting

Tom Standage

256 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
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In 1841, while browsing in a Cambridge bookshop, a young English student named John Couch Adams happened upon a perplexed remark in an astronomical report on the erratic behavior of the planet Uranus. A gifted mathematician, Adams set about arrivi...

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