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product_id: 20490013
title: "The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe"
brand: "thomas levenson"
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# The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

**Brand:** thomas levenson
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- **What is this?** The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe by thomas levenson
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The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

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## Customer Reviews

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    An example of how settled science in never really science...
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2019*

Fabulously researched and put together.  In the late 1800's and early 1900's the planet Vulcan became "settled science" and all the top scientists agreed that it either existed and had been spotted or it existed and would be confirmed. "Vulcan" even appeared in textbooks as a planet between the Sun and Mercury after it was endorsed by successful planet hunters and astronomers claimed "sightings". Amazing story of how confirmation bias creates an environment where scientists, lacking healthy skepticism, are "all in". Einstein provides an explanation (General Relativity) that suggests Vulcan unnecessary and the planet gently faded as a reality and failed to be sighted again on the same eclipse that saw the bending of star light predicted by Einstein. This should be required reading for all scientists as a caution about how the high priests of truth in our western society can be duped into believing in things that are not there and never were.

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    How science really works
  

*by T***A on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2017*

It's really a fascinating and readable account of an era in science history.  And showing the great minds of European science working heroically to find the reason why Mercury's orbit just didn't quite work within Newtonian physics. And not finding the explanation (which the existence of a planet closer to the sun might have fixed), but working heroically and working heroically and ... then just gave up. Einstein came along and resolved the issue a few decades later, but in sort of an unsatisfying deus ex machina way. Goes to show--science doesn't work exactly like they said in high school.  One thing I would have liked is some footnotes or a link to the math behind some of these problems. Or maybe they're there, but it's too hard to thumb through a Kindle--possibly the paper book would have been better.

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    Very Interesting Take on Development of Physics / Astronomy
  

*by E***T on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2017*

Readable, insightful history of physics / astronomy, telling the story of how our understanding of the solar system developed from Newton to Einstein.  How the hypothesis of a planet Vulcan in our solar system came to be invented and then debunked.There are some very insightful thoughts about the nature of scientific thought and method presented in a very readable way.  I particularly liked the author's treatment of how stories and scientific thinking relate to each other.Four stars instead of five, because a little too light on the math for my taste, general relativity needing a bit more explanation, and the ending a bit abrupt -- it could have given us a bit more about Einstein's unsuccessful attempts at a unified field theory, which would have added some additional context that I think is a significant part of this story.

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