Nicholas Kollerstrom argues that George (*) Airy took an unreasonable share of blame for the British loss in the race to confirm this object's existence.
Edward Herrick, a librarian at Yale, suggested that this object be identified with one supposedly observed by Wartmann. Adolf Petersen and Sears Walker independently precovered this object in Lalande's Histoire cÃ©leste franÃ§aise, while the Lazzaroni network of American astronomer Benjamin Peirce argued that the discovery of this object was a "happy accident." Nicholas Kollerstrom argues that George (*) Airy took an unreasonable share of blame for the British loss in the race to confirm this object's existence. William Lassell discovered a satellite of this object just 17 days after Heinrich d'Arrest assisted in its discovery. The subject of two independent solutions to the inverse perturbation problem, name this celestial object about which Johann Galle wrote in 1846 to Urban Le Verrier "monsieur, the planet of which you indicated the position really exists."
Edward Herrick, a librarian at Yale, suggested that this object be identified with one supposedly observed by Wartmann.
Neptune