Urbain Le Verrier: The Man Who Found Neptune Without a Telescope

In the world of science, few stories are as astonishing as that of Urbain Le Verrier, the man who predicted the existence and exact location of a planet using only mathematics. While most celestial discoveries are made by peering through telescopes, Le Verrier sat at a desk with equations, numbers, and charts—and found Neptune, a planet billions of kilometers away from Earth.