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The Neptune File

The Neptune File Planet Detectives and the Discovery of Worlds Unseen

Paperback (05 Jul 2001)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This volume draws on recently discovered documents to reveal how two planet detectives pioneered a new way of seeing into space. It tells the story of the Cornish mathematician John Couch Adams and his discovery of the planet Neptune in 1845.

Book information

ISBN: 9780140294644
Publisher: Penguin
Imprint: Penguin
Pub date:
DEWEY: 523.481
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 214
Weight: 180g
Height: 197mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 15mm