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.
Article
Schneider, Ivo;
(2000)
Kein britischer Anteil an der Entdeckung Neptuns
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Book
William Sheehan;
Trudy E. Bell;
Carolyn Kennett;
Robert Smith;
(2021)
Neptune: From Grand Discovery to a World Revealed: Essays on the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of John Couch Adams
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Article
Pascal Descamps;
(2015)
La découverte de Neptune: Entre triomphe et camouflet
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Stephen Case;
(2019)
A “Confounded Scrape”: John Herschel, Neptune, and Naming the Satellites of the Outer Solar System
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Article
Descamps, Pascal;
(2015)
La découverte de Neptune: Entre triomphe et camouflet
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Article
Kollerstrom, Nicholas;
(2006)
An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune's Co-prediction, 1845--1846: Part 2
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Chapter
Bartels, Andreas;
(2009)
Hypotheticity and Realism---Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism
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Article
Shah, Mehul;
(2008)
The Logics of Discovery in Popper's Evolutionary Epistemology
(/isis/citation/CBB001230071/)
Article
Khaitun, S. D.;
(2011)
Popper's Conclusion on the Possible Refutation of Any Scientific Theory: Lessons for History of Science from Twentieth-Century Philosophical Developments
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Chapter
Débarbat, Suzanne;
Dumont, Simone;
(2001)
Des observations astronomiques vieilles de deux siècles toujours d'actualité -- Un exemple relatif à Neptune
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Article
Kollerstrom, Nicholas;
(2006)
An Hiatus in History: The British Claim for Neptune's Co-prediction, 1845--1846: Part I
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Article
Kollerstrom, Nicholas;
(2009)
The Naming of Neptune
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Article
Díez, Jose;
(2007)
Falsificationism and the Structure of Theories: The Popper-Kuhn Controversy about the Rationality of Normal Science
(/isis/citation/CBB000701062/)
Article
Sheehan, William;
Thurber, Steven;
(2007)
John Couch Adams's Asperger Syndrome and the British Non-discovery of Neptune
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Article
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg;
(2012)
A Plea for a Historical Epistemology of Research
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Book
Raynaud, Dominique;
(2015)
Scientific Controversies: A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Science
(/isis/citation/CBB001422479/)
Article
Cornelis Menke;
(2018)
The Whewell-Mill Debate on Predictions, from Mill's Point of View
(/isis/citation/CBB045518739/)
Article
Barbara E. Hof;
(2018)
The Cybernetic "General Model Theory": Unifying Science or Epistemic Change?
(/isis/citation/CBB821418931/)
Article
Natalia Gándara-Chacana;
(2022)
Gender, Place and the Validation of Knowledge: The Transnational Debate about the Effects of the Chilean Earthquakes of 1822 and 1835 on Land Elevation
(/isis/citation/CBB706157791/)
Article
Jessica Tran The;
(2021)
Freud, Griesinger and Foville: the influence of the nineteenth-century psychiatric tradition in the Freudian concept of delusion as an ‘attempt at recovery’
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