Halley soon argued with Society members Richard Hook and Christopher Wren about how to accurately measure planetary motion. They took their debate to Isaac Newton, who told them he’d figured it out earlier but couldn’t find his notes, but agreed to redo calculations. “Halley persuaded Newton to expand his studies and allow him to edit the work,” Wikipedia tells us, and, since the Royal Society had spent their book budget on “History of Fishes,” Halley paid all expenses for compiling and publishing Newton’s new work, “The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” (or “the Principia,” as its Latin abbreviation is better known). The Society also announced they couldn’t pay Halley his £50 annual salary, but reimbursed him with unsold copies of the fish book.
Describing Newton’s “Principia,” Stanford.edu wrote, “no work was more seminal in the development of modern physics and astronomy than Newton’s Principia. Its conclusion that the force retaining the planets in their orbits is one in kind with terrestrial gravity ended forever the view dating back at least to Aristotle that the celestial realm calls for one science and the sublunar realm, another.” It also laid the groundwork for calculus but wouldn’t have emerged had Halley not intervened, the same Halley who used Newton’s book to bolster his argument for a hollow earth since “the variations in Earth’s magnetic field couldn’t be due to some sort of magnetic body wandering around in rock, what with the rather solid nature of rock, so there must be unseen circles spinning around beneath our feet.”
“When you’re one step ahead of the crowd you’re a genius,” Rabbi Shlmo Riskin, noted. “When you’re two steps ahead, you’re a crackpot.”
Posted for a break and entertainment. I have never seen a UFO.
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Paging Mr. E A Poe. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
I thought Cyrus Teed invented the hollow earth theory.
Real estate prices in inner earth aren’t bad but the Reptilians are awful neighbors.
If the Earth were hollow, we’d all be dead, right? No magnetic field? Much likelier that the Earth would have enormous cavern areas embedded in the crust
A friend of mine had the book when I was a kid. He swore it was all gospel. He grew up and became a polygamist.
Hey Gamey. Do you have the Hollow earth list available?
I once knew a guy who believed the earth was hollow and that the government knew where there was an entrance to the cavity within the globe but was keeping it secret. Having passed a geology class at Occidental College taught by a noted glaciologist, I wasn’t convinced.
I still remember magazines in the 1960s advertising books on the Hollow Earth.
Bookstores at that time also had dozens of paperback books on the Lost Continent of Lemuria (MU).