But for physicists, it is the perfect tool to cheat tax dollars by faking space missions, fusion and subatomic particle research, and detecting hypothetical black holes and gravitational waves.
Moving into the modern scientific era, the first real prediction of a total solar eclipse (time and place) occurred in 1715. Comet Edmond Halley accurately predicted a total solar eclipse within 4 minutes and 20 miles of his home in London. He made full use of Isaac Newton's new theory of gravity and orbital mechanics: the Principia.
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