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In 1684, astronomer Edmund Halley and architect Sir Christopher Wren were wrestling with a mathematical proof for explaining planetary orbits. While he did receive encouragement from Astronomer Royal Edmund Halley (John Wood), the Board of Longitude was prejudiced against the problem being solved by a mechanical method. While Einstein's relativity theories and quantum mechanics have shown the limits of Newton's work (applicable only to the macroscopic, slowly moving physical world), scientists today are as much as awe of Newton's accomplishments as Edmund Halley and others were while Newton lived. |
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Edmund Halley - English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)