The hunt for Vulcan - how Albert Einstein destroyed a planet and deciphered the Universe

This book is about scientific error and wishful thinking and tells the story of how the world's greatest scientists searched for a planet, named Vulcan, that never existed. 

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Subject(s)Space
Author(s)Thomas Levenson
Published2015
Shelf referenceESA 520.9 LEV
ISN/ISBN978-1-784973988
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/xhxpz

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