Concept
Discovery of Neptune
Overview
human discovery of the planet Neptune
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Hipparchus, who can never be sufficiently commended, as one who more especially proved the relation of the stars to man, and that our souls are a portion of heaven, discovered a new star that was produced in his own age, and, by observing its motions on the day in which it shone, he was led to doubt whether this does not often happen, that those stars have motion which we suppose to be fixed. And the same individual…
the Elder Pliny, The Boys' and Girls' Pliny
Close in meaning to Discovery of Neptune; the term itself is not named.
Experiments and reasonings of the two voyagers. Micromegas slowly reached his hand towards the place where the object had appeared, extended two fingers, and withdrew them for fear of being mistaken, then opened and closed them, and skillfully seized the vessel that carried these fellows, putting it on his fingernail without pressing it too hard for fear of crushing it. "Here is a very different animal from the…
Voltaire, Micromegas
Close in meaning to Discovery of Neptune; the term itself is not named.
Behold them then returned to the spot from whence they had set out, after having discovered that almost imperceptible sea, which is called the Mediterranean; and the other narrow pond that surrounds this mole-hill, under the denomination of the great ocean; in wading through which the dwarf had never wet his mid-leg, while the other scarce moistened his heel. In going and coming through both hemispheres, they did…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
States what Discovery of Neptune is.
Related ideas
- Urbain Le Verrier
- Neptune
- Mass
- Munich
- Planet
- Paris
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Solar System
- Scientific American
- Galileo Galilei
- Berlin
- Cambridge
- Fellow
- Earth's rotation
- Uranus
- Royal Society
- Newton's laws of motion
- Cambridge University Press
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- John Couch Adams
Place in the tradition
Part of Confirmation holism.