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The story of the discovery of the planet Neptune is particularly interesting. It started with Alexis Bouvard (1767-1843), a French astronomer who lived at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Bouvard, born in the village of Contamines in what was then the Duchy of Savoy and is now the department of Haute Savoie in the Alps of southeastern France, discovered eight comets, and compiled astronomical tables for the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus (whose status as a planet had only been confirmed in 1781 by German-British astronomer William Herschel).
As Wikipedia notes, referring to Jupiter and Saturn, “While the...