Planet Vulcan

Intro to history

The Afterlives of Scientific Ideas

intro: science as culture

About This Collection

This digital library was created by by Elizabeth-Marie Helms, a graduate student in Library Science and the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University. The project began as a term project for John A. Walsh’s Digital Libraries. The library is built upon CollectionBuilder.

Further Reading

Baum, Richard. In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s Clockwork Universe. Plenum Press, 1997.

Hanson, Norwood Russell. “Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics.” Isis 52, no. 3 (1962): 359–78.

Levenson, Thomas. The Hunt for Vulcan: …And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe. First edition. Random House, 2015.