Neptune Visited and the Outer Solar System Revolutionised, 1989–2019

Chapter 9 sketched the labours of elite mathematicians across a century and a half from 1846 to about 1990, discarding Bode’s Law and seeking to refine celestial mechanics in order to narrow the search area and discover further planets in the Outer Solar System. All, including the long-held Laplacian Theory for formation of the Solar System, would be swept aside, as Solar System studies based on Isaac Newton’s most exacting science have been rejuvenated by supercomputers.