The hunt for Vulcan
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"The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed."--Amazon.com.
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on “What are the best books you read in 2017?” ↗Why "instead" ? they seem completely different from each other Hunt for Vulcan is a fun history lesson with some interesting insights about human nature. It's history of science, not science. It took about 3 hours to read and I had a lot of fun with it.
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