References for Urbain Le Verrier

  1. J R Levy, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. Centenaire de la naissance de U-J-J le Verrier (Paris, 1911).
  2. W Sheehan and R Baum, Le Verrier's Wild Geese (New York, 1996).

Articles:

  1. J Bertrand, Eloge historique de Le Verrier, Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris, Mémoires 15 (1880), 3-22.

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