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Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathematica" almost wasn't published by the Royal Society of London because they had spent their whole budget on a book about fish, called "The History of Fishes". The cost was instead covered by astronomer Edmund Halley
how did edmund halley die?
In 1686 John Rays lavishly illustrated book "History of Fish" sold so poorly that it left the Royal Society bankrupt with no money to publish Newtons upcoming book Principia. Edmund Halley sacrificed his entire year salary to publish Newtons book and in return got Fish books every week as salary
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what did edmund halley discover?
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Arthur Storer, who had a comet named after him until Edmund Halley predicted the comet's return.
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After Edmund Halley Calculated the Orbit of Halley's Comet he Theorized the Earth was Hollow with Two Smaller World's and a Solid Core Inside that Could be Accessed through Holes at the North and South Poles.
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Edmund Halley (of the Halley's Comet) paid for the publishing of Newton's Principa Mathematica from his own pocket.
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Sir Isaac Newton's book Principia was almost not published because the Royal Society chose to publish a book called "The History of Fishes" first. Newton's friend Edmund Halley paid for Newton's book to be published.
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Sir Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley once dissected a dolphin on a table in the Grecian Coffee House in London.
