The Hunt for Vulcan
Subtitle: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
Edition: 2016 Random House Paperback Edition
Publisher: Random House; Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2016
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780812988307; 9780812988291
Copyright date: 2015
Table of contents: label: PREFACE
title: xi; title: PART ONE: NEWTON TO NEPTUNE (1682-1846); label: 1. "THE IMMOVABLE ORDER OF THE WORLD"
title: 3; label: 2. "A HAPPY THOUGHT'
title: 13; label: 3. "THAT STAR IS NOT ON THE MAP"
title: 27; label: INTERLUDE: "SO VERY OCCULT"
title: 44; title: PART TWO: NEPTUNE TO VULCAN (1846-1878); label: 4. THIRTY-EIGHT SECONDS
title: 53; label: 5. A DISTURBING MASS
title: 69; label: 6. "THE SEARCH WILL END SATISFACTORILY"
title: 79; label: 7. "SO LONG ELUDING THE HUNTER"
title: 92; label: INTERLUDE: "A SPECIAL WAY OF FINDING THINGS OUT"
title: 111; title: PART THREE: VULCAN TO EINSTEIN (1905-1915); label: 8. "THE HAPPIEST THOUGHT"
title: 127; label: 9. "HELP ME, OR ELSE I'LL GO CRAZY"
title: 142; label: 10. "BESIDE HIMSELF WITH JOY"
title: 160; label: POSTSCRIPT: "THE LONGING TO BEHOLD...PREEXISTING HARMONY"
title: 174; label: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
title: 183; label: NOTES
title: 187; label: BIBLIOGRAPHY
title: 207; label: ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
title: 217; label: INDEX
title: 219