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Which scientist developed the theory of gravitation and used it to explain the orbits of celestial bodies?.

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Sir Isaac Newton. He formulated the law of universal gravitation (F = G m1 m2 / r^2) and, in his 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, used it to derive and explain the elliptical orbits of planets (recovering Kepler’s laws).