How did Leverrier and Adams calculate Neptune's position?

[ZZ Top]

Can anybody help me find informations about the mathematical discovery of planet neptune ?

I would like to know how Leverrier and Adams calculated the position of neptune and all this stuff...

Thanks in advance..

Jack

 

[scott1]

I think astronmers noticed chages in uranuas orbit eventually using Newtons laws of gravity I think one of them cacluted where Neptune whould be.

 

[Phobos]

I don't have a quick link for the specific math, but some good starting points to begin your search are here...
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/neptune.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune

and of course Google