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Description</span></strong></p>

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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">A short, charming, character-driven book on science
that tells the story of the 50-year search by the world’s top scientists for
the “missing” planet Vulcan and Albert Einstein’s remarkable proof of the
Theory of Relativity, which once and for all proved that the planet never
existed in the first place. November 2015 is the 100th anniversary of
Einstein’s discovery of the General Theory of Relativity.</span></p>

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"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Levenson, head of MIT’s Science Writing Program,
tells the captivating, unusual, and nearly-forgotten backstory behind
Einstein’s invention of the Theory of Relativity, which completely changed the
course of science forever. For over 50 years before Einstein developed his
theory, the world’s top astronomers spent countless hours and energy searching
for a planet, which came to be named Vulcan, that had to exist, it was thought,
given Isaac Newton’s theories of gravity. Indeed, in the two centuries since Newton’s
death, his theory had essentially become accepted as fact. It took Einstein’s
genius to realize the mystery of the missing planet wasn’t a problem of
measurements or math but of Newton’s theory of gravity itself. Einstein’s
Theory of Relativity proved that Vulcan did not and could not exist, and that
the decades-long search for it had merely been a quirk of operating under the
wrong set of assumptions about the universe. Thomas Levenson tells this unique
story, one of the strangest episodes in the history of science, with elegant
simplicity, fast-paced drama, and lively characters sure to capture the
attention of a wide group of readers.</span></p>

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the Author</span></strong></p>

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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Thomas
Levenson</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:"Google Sans",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> is the author of Newton and the
Counterfeiter, a bestselling book about Newton^s time as Master of the Royal
Mint. He published The Hunt for Vulcan with Head of Zeus in 2016, a book
shortlisted for the Science Book Prize. He teaches at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and is a frequent visitor to London.</span></p>



