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It is interesting that prior to Einstein’s theoretical description of the perihelion precession of planets, the existence of a planet, referred to as the Vulcan between Mercury and the Sun, was postulated by the French mathematician and astronomer, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences, Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier in the late 1850s.
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Manoukian, E.B. (2020). Perihelion Precession of Planets Orbits and the Schwinger-Binet Equation. In: 100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51081-7_56
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