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The hunt for Vulcan : … and how Albert Einstein destroyed a planet, discovered relativity, and deciphered the universe
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The hunt for Vulcan : … and how Albert Einstein destroyed a planet, discovered relativity, and deciphered the universe

by Thomas Levenson

This book details the historical search for Vulcan, a hypothetical planet once believed to exist near Mercury. It explores how Newtonian physics predicted the phantom planet, an error that was only resolved by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Accession 22521 ISBN 9780812998986 Publisher Random House
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