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In 1692, Edmond Halley submitted a paper to the British Royal Society stating that Earth is hollow. The author provides an extended analysis of the thought of Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley and argues convincingly that they appropriated many aspects of traditional comet lore into the new science. The double-page-spread illustrations were packed with information as well as hilarious--Sir Edmond Halley, in his study at the Greenwich Observatory, turning toward young John Harrison while holding a telescope with one hand, the other hand cupped to catch a falling star. |
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Edmond Halley - English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)