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Einstein's Golden Moment
The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
From Newton to Einstein: The Mystery of Vulcan
This chapter explores the failed attempts to find the hypothetical planet Vulcan, proposed by astronomer Le Verrier, to explain the irregular orbit of Mercury and the implications it had on Newtonian physics.
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