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

The Hunt for Vulcan

. . . and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

2015 • 229 pages

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"The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed."--Amazon.com.

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Great telling of the history, science, and drama behind the search for a planet between the Sun and Mercury to explain apparent oddities in Mercury's orbit.

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