According to Sitchen the ancients new about Neptune.
]]>There is another story that Galileo first observed it around 1613 - 1614 but due to bad weather failed to see that it was a planet.
About what are you really talking bobbym..?
]]>They say that the orbit predicted by Adams and Le Verrier diverged by such a large amount that it was extremely fortuitious that the sighting was where they predicted! A few yours later and it would not have been found.
There is another story that Galileo first observed it around 1613 - 1614 but due to bad weather failed to see that it was a planet.
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