Urbain Le Verrier
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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathema
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Statue of Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory
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Le Verrier's grave
Discovery of Neptune
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The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on
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…Galle in Berlin, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science. Urbain Le Verrier…
New Berlin Observatory at Linden Street, where Neptune was discovered observationally.
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Urbain Jean-Joseph Le Verrier.
Johann Gottfried Galle, 1880