… the irregularities of the motion of Uranus…in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]

Hazel blue anemone in a little SeaSide cave…drawing currents from the sea turquoise blue on sparkling waves. In ocean dreams, the poet waits by his grotto, passing days. Rhyming verse, his mind creates where his...

The Bane…where coxswain’s dirtand seaman’s shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest…

Le Verrier—without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky—had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys.

Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also knew that Annabeth was on that ship.If things went right, this would be the best day...

Hazel squinted. “How far?””Just over the river and through the woods.”Percy raised an eyebrow. “Seriously? To Grandmother’s house we go?”Frank cleared his throat. “Yeah, anyway.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty...

[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom … systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial bodies to FIRE or to WATER; and … their followers...

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in...

Aaah … when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry…