[Ads-l] Antedating of "Neptune" (Planet)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Neptune (OED, 3., 1847)

1846 _Morning Post_ 7 Oct. 6/4 (Newspapers.com)

M. Leverrier, to whom belongs the right of naming it [a newly discovered planet], does not agree to the too significative name of Janus, but will consent to any other (Neptune, for instance,) which would have the assent of astronomers.

Fred Shapiro

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