Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00238)

samblo@cs.com wrote:
> I am not quite sure what or which specific information you want verified. 
> The Vulcan Astronomical sighting history? 
That.

> have no specific kniowledge about the 43 second difference other than the 
> elipse calculations were more imprecise the further back you go, I think, maybe 
> due to assumption that orbits were circular in keeping with the perfection of 
> the order of the heavens concept.
No. The orbit of Mercury was 43 seconds off from calculations. The most 
likely possibility was another planet; the size and position of it was 
calculated, and it was called "Vulcan". Only one small problem: when 
people looked for it, they couldn't find it. Blavatsky, among others, 
posited that energy and matter were the same thing, Einstein ran with 
the idea, and came up with his theory of relativity, which precisely 
explained Mercury's problem orbit without any need for Vulcan.

Bart