Review paragraph 3. 3 Edmond Halley, a Friend of Newton's and a famous selentist in his own right, helped with the books. Halley edited Prineipls and offered support and encouragement. When it was finlshed, the Roya! Society, an important greup of sclentlists, agreed to publish Newton's books. However, the socloty then spent all of its money on a book about the history of fishes and could not afford to publish Newton's work. Thls was disappointing, Dut Newton's friend Halley saved Prindpia by paying for the books to be printed himseif. 4 Though Princlp/a was published more than three hundred years ago, it is still considered one of the greatest sclentic works ever printed. Some even consider it one of the greatest works ever publisied on any subject. The British astronaut Tim Peake called Newton "Britain's greatest selentlst." In Based on clues in the text, what did Halley most llikely think of Newton's Principla? Halley thought Principla should have been shortened to reduce the cost. Halley thought most people would not be interested in Principla. Haliey thought Newton's ideas in Princlpla were interesting but probably wrong. Halley thought that Princlola was an Important work.