Leverrier
Americannoun
noun
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Wholly independent of each other John Couch Adams, young Englishman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, young Frenchman, did the mathematical work.
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The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier.
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In desperation a French astronomer named Leverrier decided that the rest of the shift must be due to an unseen planet even closer to the sun than Mercury.
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Western journalists usually knock in vain at that door with its peephole at 2 Rue Leverrier, a short walk from the house where Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein used to hold court.
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Less than a fortnight later, September 23, Professor Galle, of the Berlin Observatory, received a letter from Leverrier requesting his aid in the telescopic part of the inquiry already analytically completed.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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