The Hunt for VulcanBy: Thomas Levenson The captivating, all but forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed For more than fifty years, the worlds top scientists searched for the missing planet Vulcan, whose existence was mandated by Isaac Newtons theories of gravity. Countless hours were spent on the hunt for the elusive orb, and some of the eras most skilled astronomers even claimed to have found it. There was just