The Neptune File
Subtitle: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting (Science Matters) (Science Matters)
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: November 6, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780425181737
First sentence: Sometime between ten and eleven o'clock on the night of Tuesday, March 13, 1781, William Herschel was looking at the stars through a homemade telescope from his garden in the English spa town of Bath.