What happened in the 1730s?
🌟 Halley's Comet Return (1737): The predicted return of Halley's Comet, reinforcing Newton's laws of motion.
Transcript
...
Further Reading
- Part 2 <br>Testing gravity: How comets helped to prove Newton right (esa.int)
- 1P/Halley - NASA Science (nasa.gov)
- Halley's Comet is Edmond Halley's namesake. Happy birthday ... (earthsky.org)
- Comet Halley (ncsu.edu)
- Edmond Halley Successfully Predicts the Return of the Great Comet ... (encyclopedia.com)
- Intro to Comets (cwru.edu)
- A Synopsis of Cometary Astronomy, Philosophical Transactions of ... (ou.edu)
- Expedition Magazine | Halley's Comet - Penn Museum (penn.museum)
- Download book PDF (springer.com)