No.
|
Title
|
Directed by
|
Original
air date
|
(millions) |
3 |
March 23, 2014
|
4.25
|
||
![]()
Tyson then continues to relate the collaboration between Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in the last part of the
17th century in Cambridge. The
collaboration would result in the publication of Philosophiæ
Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the first major work to
describe the laws of physics in mathematical terms, despite objections and
claims of plagiarism from Robert Hooke and financial difficulties
of the Royal Society of
London. Tyson explains how this work challenged the prevailing
notion that God had planned out the heavens, but would end up influencing
many factors of modern life, including space flight.
Tyson
further describes Halley's contributions based on Newton's work, including
determining Earth's distance to the
sun, the motion of stars and
predicting the orbit of then-unnamed Halley's Comet using Newton's laws.
Tyson contrasts these scientific approaches to understanding the galaxy
compared to what earlier civilizations had done, and considers this
advancement as humankind's first steps into exploring the universe. The
episode ends with an animation of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies' merging based
on the principles of
|
No comments:
Post a Comment