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The conversation, however, didn’t end there. After their meeting, Halley continued to ponder the topic and relayed the discourse to a friend, who expressed a desire to tackle the issue of proof. That friend was none other than the legendary Isaac Newton—whose groundbreaking work would fundamentally change our understanding of physics.
Newton took on the challenge and, through rigorous mathematical proofs and explanations, definitively established the principles of gravity and the laws of motion that govern celestial bodies. His work would later culminate in "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," commonly known as the Principia, which not only proved Hooke's theories but laid the groundwork for modern physics.