This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/le-verrier. It is of the utmost interest to investigate the extent to which one planet can affect another in virtue of their mutual attractions. Check more stories related to writing at: https://hackernoon.com/c/writing. You can also check exclusive content about #biography, #non-fiction, #hackernoon-books, #project-gutenberg, #books, #robert-s.-ball, #ebooks, #great-astronomers, and more. This story was written by: @robertsball. Learn more about this writer by checking @robertsball's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The name of Le Verrier is one that goes down to fame on account of very different discoveries from those which have given renown to several of the other astronomers whom we have mentioned. We are sometimes apt to identify the idea of an astronomer with that of a man who looks through a telescope at the stars; but the word astronomer has really much wider significance. No man who ever lived has been more entitled to be designated an astronomer than Le Verrier, and yet it is certain that he never made a telescopic discovery of any kind. Indeed, so far as his scientific achievements have been concerned, he might never have looked through a telescope at all.