Summary:
In 1735, the Royal French Academy of Sciences headed an excursion to Peru (and Quito) to investigate the circumference by calculating the distance between two degrees. During that time, there was a lot of interest in discover things about Earth. However, that excursion was ill fated, and included such bad fortune as having a doctor killed, many diseases, permit problems, and tensions with the locals.
Halley, a genius who was famous for many things, went around, work on some stuff, then went to Cambridge, talked to Newton about Keplar's laws, then discovered that Newton had figured it out, but didn't do anything else about it. Newton was quite a genius, and worked and so many things that it'll take forever to mention, but his specialties were alchemy and religion.
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