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Describes the dramatic events surrounding the discovery of Neptune, the eighth planet in the solar system, and profiles the two men, British mathematician John Couch Adams and French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier who predicted where the planet would be based on mathematical calculations rather than on observation. Reprint.
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Tom Standage, author of The Victorian Internet, is a science correspondent at The Economist. Formerly deputy editor of the technology section of London's Daily Telegraph, he has also written for Wired, The Guardian, and The Independent.
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