The Discovery of Neptune | How Le Verrier used Newtonian Mechanics to predict another planet?

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The Discovery of Neptune in 1846 is regarded as one of the most legendary moments in the consolidation of classical mechanics. Discovering a distant world in the darkness of space by the use of mathematical reasoning became one of the late triumphs of the Enlightenment and Newton's vision.

I used Rebound (a Python library for orbital mechanics) to show how Neptune perturbs Uranus's motion through 550 years. These perturbations were studied by Urbain Le Verrier and others to infer the existence of Neptune with high accuracy by the use of Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation.

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