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English: This is an alternate symbol for the planet Neptune. Observatory director François Arago proposed for the new planet the name Leverrier (for discoverer Urbain Le Verrier) and this symbol, based on an LV ligature. Now U+2BC9 ⯉.

Date

1847

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Originally published in Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 25, no. 581, cols. 81-82.

Author



Alternative names	Birth name: Dominique François Jean Arago Roig; Francois Arago
Description	French astronomer, mathematician, physicist, politician, university teacher and biographer
Date of birth/death	26 February 1786	2 October 1853
Location of birth/death	Estagel	Paris
Work location	Paris
Authority file	: Q154353 VIAF: 64023378 ISNI: 0000000122809159 LCCN: n50052497 NLA: 35263984 Open Library: OL7104877A WorldCat

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