But astronomer Edmond Halley, whose name flies through space to this day attached to the famed comet, became a friend and patron of the young recluse and brought Newton’s groundbreaking work out of his closed quarters. Newton had been burned by Robert Hooke, who took credit for some of Newton’s early theories and continued to plague Newton in this manner through the course of his career. In the third episode of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” Neil DeGrasse Tyson took viewers through a rapid shift in how people understand the cosmos, a story revolving around a single, sullen, secluded student at Cambridge University-Isaac Newton.
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