Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws read to Royal Society

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10 December, 1684

Edmond Halley read Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws to the Royal Society on 10th December 1684. Newton had put these forward in his theory of gravitation first published in his paper De motu corporum in gyrum.