Urbain Le Verrier1859
Le Verrier was the first to report that the slow precession of Mercurys orbit around the Sun could not be completely explained by Newtonian mechanics and perturbations by the known planets
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Le Verrier was the first to report that the slow precession of Mercurys orbit around the Sun could not be completely explained by Newtonian mechanics and perturbations by the known planets
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