Timeline for What pre-GR alternatives to Vulcan were advanced to explain Mercury's perihelion precession?
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 15:37 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | A previous question that is relevant here: Advance of the perihelion of Mercury (I was reminded of it by Conifold's comment about the exponent correction.) | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 2:28 | answer | added | terry-s | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 6, 2021 at 22:58 | comment | added | Conifold | Two most prominent proposals were Newcomb's small correction of the exponent in the inverse square law to $2.00000016$ (1895), see Pollock, Mercury’s Perihelion, and Seeliger's gas cloud around the Sun instead of Vulcan (1906). The latter had an added benefit of explaining solar corona and zodiacal light, see Brown, Conquering the Perihelion. | |
| Nov 6, 2021 at 14:13 | history | asked | J.G. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |