Article ID: CBB000015107

The glory of gravitation--Halley's comet, 1759 (1984)

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Description The first predicted appearance of a comet was regarded as the acid test of Newton's theory of gravity.


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Authors & Contributors
Hughes, David W.
Sinnema, Peter W.
Zilhão, Isabel
Hughes, D. W.
Steele, John M.
Simões, Ana I.
Concepts
Comets; meteors; meteorites
Astronomy
Navigation
Cosmology
Celestial mechanics
Stars; stellar astronomy
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
19th century
14th century
Places
Great Britain
London (England)
Portugal
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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