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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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