English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Neptune was telescopically discovered by Johan Gottfried Galle and HeinrichLouis d'Arrest in Berlin on 23 September 1846 based on the prediction by UrbainJean Joseph Le Verrier. The role German astronomers played in the discovery hasoften been overshadowed by the controversies that erupted in England and Franceafter the discovery. However, their role was crucial, not only in bringingabout the discovery in the first place, but also in resolving some of thepost-discovery controversies that erupted around priority for the predictionand naming of the planet. German astronomers in Central and Eastern Europepossessed some of the best telescopes of the day and had established themselvesover several decades as being at the forefront of observational astronomy. Theyhad produced the star charts that in the end proved indispensable for allowingidentification of the planet, while a German publication, AstronomischeNachrichten, published by H. C. Schumacher in Altona, in the vicinity ofHamburg, then part of the Kingdom of Denmark, served as the journal of record.The general neglect of the German part of the story is most strongly attestedby the inaccuracies concerning what actually happened on discovery night, whichwere long propagated in the English-speaking literature. Notably, for 30 yearsafter the discovery, it was not appreciated that there were two observers,while the role of the sky map used was often exaggerated. This chapter setsforth a more complete picture, and in particular emphasises more than previousaccounts the critical role of d'Arrest, arguing that he should be celebrated asa co-discoverer. In addition, evidence presented here, much of it notpreviously available in the English-speaking literature, shows that the name"Neptune" was eventually accepted throughout the scientific community based onGerman precedents.

"That Star Is Not on the Map": The German Side of the discovery