Mathematical discovery of planet neptune

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