(They Were Able To Find The Orbit Of a Comet And Predict The Year Of its Return)
(They Were Able To Find The Orbit Of a Comet And Predict The Year Of its Return)
(They Were Able To Find The Orbit Of a Comet And Predict The Year Of its Return)
They were able to find the orbit of a comet and predict the year of it's return.
Edmond Halley and Alexis Clairaut made significant contributions to the understanding of the orbits of comets and the shape of the Earth using Newton's ideas of mathematics and gravity. Halley famously predicted the return of Comet Halley by applying Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation. Clairaut extended this work by using Newtonian principles to determine that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but an oblate spheroid, confirming that the planet's equatorial diameter is larger than its polar diameter due to its rotation. These discoveries laid the foundation for modern celestial mechanics and geophysics.
Gravity is the major force in the Universe controlling matter. Gravity controls the structure of the Universe.
It proved that Isaac newton's Theories Of Motion And Gravity are correct.
The Law of Gravity was Isaac Newton's greatest discovery. This Law ushered in a New Age of Mathematics based science; settled a controversy about the heavens; and extended the domain of science to the Universe.
His great discovery was the law of gravity
Gravity
discovery of gravity by Sir Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei. Perhaps his most important discovery was finding that acceleration due to gravity is independent of the objects mass.
He was curious and driven. He observed things very carefully. He had a brilliant mind and a brilliant grasp of mathematics. He figured out which questions were the important ones. Put all that together, and you get discovery.