Link to video: Cosmos:
A Spacetime Odyssey: When Knowledge Conquered Fear
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Isaac Newton was prominently featured in this episode. The
only book I’ve read on Newton is Isaac Newton by James Gleick. There is a much
longer biography on him that I haven’t read yet called Never
at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton by Richard
S. Westfall. This episode also made me want to learn more about
Edmond Halley, as it seems the comet he’s known for is a but a tiny piece of
the things worth knowing about him. The go-to biography on Halley seems to be Edmond
Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas by
Alan Cook.