In 1607 a "heavenly messenger” crossed the Englis skies. What was this messenger?
a. a white eagle
b. an eclipsed moon
c. a comet
d. the Northern lights

C. A comet

By using Sir Isaac Newton’s gravitational theories to chart the paths of two dozen comets, Halley hit on a provocative new theory: three comets seen in 1531, 1607 and 1682 were actually the same object. Halley argued that the comet orbited the sun and whizzed by the Earth roughly once every 76 years, and he predicted that it would reappear sometime in late 1758 or early 1759.