{"id":22286,"date":"2016-02-18T02:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T10:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-first-planet-discovered-by-math"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:53:46","slug":"the-first-planet-discovered-by-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-first-planet-discovered-by-math","title":{"rendered":"The First Planet Discovered By Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-planet-discovered-by-math.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two astronomers fought for credit when Neptune\u2019s presence was confirmed in 1846: John Couch Adams from Britain, and Urbain Le Verrier from France. Both had used math and physics to predict Neptune\u2019s position, but Le Verrier\u2019s prediction turned out to be more accurate. <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosity.com\/memes\/the-first-planet-discovered-by-math\/#references\">See references.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/curiosity.com\/memes\/the-first-planet-discovered-by-math\/?shrink=1&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=meme&utm_campaign=20160218fbk00Crstneptunemath\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two astronomers fought for credit when Neptune\u2019s presence was confirmed in 1846: John Couch Adams from Britain, and Urbain Le Verrier from France. Both had used math and physics to predict Neptune\u2019s position, but Le Verrier\u2019s prediction turned out to be more accurate. See references. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62814,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286\/revisions\/62814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}