Packed with colourful anecdotes, this is a vivid, well-paced and thoroughly enjoyable tale of human delusion and ultimate scientific triumph

Marcus Chown, author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and The Afterglow of Creation

This book is equal to the best science writing I've read... Beautifully written, rich in historical context, deeply researched with primary source material, it is above all great story telling... The book gives a true picture of the scientific enterprise, with all its good and bad guesses, wishful thinking, passion, human ego, and a desire to know and understand this strange and magnificent cosmos we find ourselves in'

Alan Lightman, author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams

This delightful and enlightening drama involves the hunt for a planet that did not exist and how Einstein resolved the mystery with the most beautiful theory in the history of science

Walter Isaacson, author of the bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein

Science writing at its best. The Hunt for Vulcan is not just learned, passionate and witty – it is profoundly wise

Junot Diaz

Levenson tells the tale with verve, showing how observations and calculations clashed in a battle that decided the fate of the universe

Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe

Levenson's narrative is a well-structured, fast-paced example of exemplary science writing. A scintillating popular account of the interplay between mathematical physics and astronomical observations

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