To avoid further humiliation, Newton excluded himself from society and worked alone. For several years before, Hook had stolen his work on light.
Isaac had kept his research secret, however. He had shown that this force, called the gravitational force, decreased with the square of the distance. All the movements of the Earth, Moon, and planets are explained in a treatise. This is how William Stukeley who visited Newton a year before his death recounts a conversation with him, After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the. To his surprise, Newton had solved the question five years earlier. As the legend goes, Isaac Newton was inspired to develop his ideas on gravity by taking notice of an apple falling from a tree. Halley then went to Cambridge to submit the problem to Newton. The law of gravity is thought to be formed of this myth that an apple fell from the tree and hit Sir Isaac Newton in the head therefore he thought that. Hook, a great scientist, tried to explain it but failed. He submitted the problem to the famous mathematician Robert Hook, a member of the Royal Society, an English Academy of Sciences. He wanted to explain it with mathematical formulas.
But he did not understand the force responsible for these movements around the sun. Upon learning that Newton had mathematically worked out the elliptical paths of. Halley, who gave his name to a comet, realized that the planets in the solar system orbit the sun in an elliptical path. In 1684, English astronomer Edmund Halley paid a visit to the secluded Newton. For the record, London scientists had been working on this issue for a long time.