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March I3, 1759.—In 1757, Clairaut began his long calculations on Halley's Comet, in which he was afterwards assisted by Lalande. In Nov. 1758 he announced that the comet would reach perihelion on Apr. 13, 1759, though its arrival might differ from this date by so much as a month. The comet reached perihelion on Mar. 13, 1759, the accuracy of Clairaut's prediction being regarded as a brilliant triumph of Newton's theorv.
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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 119, 412 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119412a0
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