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Which British scientist explained gravity with the law of universal gravitation in 1687?
A.
Robert Hooke
B.
Edmund Halley
C.
Isaac Newton
D.
Gottfried Leibniz
Explanation:
Isaac Newton published the law of universal gravitation in ‘Principia’ (1687). Hooke, Halley, Leibniz were contemporaries but not that law’s main author.
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