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Cosmic Quest A Comet's Tale
13/30 Heather Couper considers how Edmund Halley went about calculating the orbit of a comet.
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Cosmic Quest A Matter of Some Gravity
12/30 Isaac Newton's mathematical brilliance put the basic laws of physics on a firm foundation.
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Cosmic Quest Seeing Is Believing
11/30 Galileo did not invent the telescope, but he was the first to record his observations.
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Cosmic Quest The Imperfect Cosmos
10/30 Tycho Brahe realised that the heavens change, but that a planet's orbit could be predicted
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Cosmic Quest The Earth Moves
9/30 Copernicus had the crazy idea that the Earth was not at the centre of the universe.
The bungling duo mix up the designs for the new pound note. Stars Deryck Guyler.