Article ID: CBB000069667

Popper and his commentators on the discovery of Neptune: A close shave for the law of gravitation? (1996)

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Description “The knowledge that there were residual or unexplained perturbations in the orbit of Uranus led to the discovery of Neptune in September 1846. This case is often discussed in relation to Karl Popper's account of science because the manifest failure of every attempt to predict the path of Uranus prior to this discovery did not lead to the refutation or rejection of Newtonian gravitational theory, as he would expect.” Discusses Popper's solution to this problem.


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Authors & Contributors
Kollerstrom, Nicholas
Descamps, Pascal
Sheehan, William
Tran The, Jessica
Kennett, Carolyn
Barbara E. Hof
Concepts
Neptune
Astronomy
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Discovery in science
Philosophy of science
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
France
Europe
Paris (France)
Institutions
Observatoire de Paris
Royal Observatory Greenwich
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