"Not long after, that Great Geometrician, the Illustrious Newton, writing his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, demonstrated not only that what Kepler had found, did necessarily obtain in the Planetary System; but also, that all the Phænomena of Comets wou'd naturally follow from the same Principles; which he abundantly illustrated by the Example of the aforesaid Comet of the Year 1680, shewing, at the same time, a Method of Delineating the Orbits of Comets Geometrically; wherein he (not without the highest Admiration of all Men) solv'd a Problem, whose Intricacy render'd it worthy of himself. This Comet he prov'd to move round the Sun in a Parabolical Orb, and to describe Area's (taken at the Center of the Sun) proportional to the Times."
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Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley, FRS (8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet.
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