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Hunt for Vulcan: . . . and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 256 pages, height x width x depth: 185x124x25 mm, weight: 295 g, Illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2015
  • Izdevniecība: Random House
  • ISBN-10: 0812998987
  • ISBN-13: 9780812998986
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 256 pages, height x width x depth: 185x124x25 mm, weight: 295 g, Illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2015
  • Izdevniecība: Random House
  • ISBN-10: 0812998987
  • ISBN-13: 9780812998986
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The head of MIT's Science Writing Program recounts the story of the 50-year-search by the world's top scientists for the “missing” planet Vulcan and Albert Einstein's remarkable proof of the Theory of Relativity, in a unique volume that brings to life one of the strangest episodes in the history of science. Includes six charts. Illustrations.

The story of the fifty-year search by the world’s top scientists for a “missing” planet, and Albert Einstein’s remarkable proof of the theory of relativity, which showed once and for all that the planet never existed in the first place.
Preface xi
PART ONE NEWTON TO NEPTUNE (1662-1846)
1 "The Immovable Order Of The World"
3(10)
2 "A Happy Thought"
13(14)
3 "That Star Is Not On The Map"
27(26)
Interlude: "So Very Occult"
44(9)
PART TWO NEPTUNE TO VULCAN (1646-1678)
4 Thirty-Eight Seconds
53(16)
5 A Disturbing Mass
69(10)
6 "The Search Will End Satisfactorily"
79(13)
7 "So Long Eluding The Hunters"
92(35)
Interlude: "A Special Way Of Finding Things Out"
111(16)
PART THREE VULCAN TO EINSTEIN (1905-1915)
8 "The Happiest Thought"
127(15)
9 "Help Me, Or Else I'll Go Crazy"
142(18)
10 "Beside Himself With Joy"
160(14)
Postscript: "The Longing To Behold ... Preexisting Harmony" 174(9)
Acknowledgments 183(4)
Notes 187(20)
Bibliography 207(10)
Illustration Credits 217(2)
Index 219