It's a miracle they did it anyway. I still remember calculating the hydrogen atom back in college. It's a trivial case compared to mercury, yet it takes a surpr

It's a miracle they did it anyway. I still remember calculating the hydrogen atom back in college. It's a trivial case compared to mercury, yet it takes a surprising amount of scribbling. I assume they did all sorts of approximate models for mercury. An analytic, rigorous solution must be impossible.