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Edmond [2] (or Edmund) [3] Halley FRS (/ ˈ h æ l i /; [4] [5] 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 – 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741]) [6] [7] was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist.
Edmond Halley was born in the village on 8 November 1656. [5] He is known as the first person to calculate the orbit of a comet that was later named after him, [6] Halley's Comet. [7] At the end of the 18th century, Haggerston was still rural, with local farmers supplying nearby London with milk and dairy products and feed for horses. [1]
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The post was created by Charles II in 1675, at the same time as he founded the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.He appointed John Flamsteed, instructing him "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the ...
A total solar eclipse occurred on 3 May 1715. It was known as Halley's Eclipse, after Edmond Halley (1656–1742) who predicted this eclipse to within 4 minutes accuracy. . Halley observed the eclipse from London where the city of London enjoyed 3 minutes 33 seconds of tota
14 January – Edmond Halley, astronomer (born 1656) 22 February – Charles Rivington, publisher (born 1688) 2 April – James Douglas, physician and anatomist (born 1675) 18 June – John Aislabie, politician (born 1670) 27 June – Nathan Bailey, philologist and lexicographer (year of birth unknown) 9 July – John Oldmixon, historian (born ...
January 14 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (born 1656). February 28 – Willem 's Gravesande, Dutch polymath (born 1688). May 13 – Nicolas Andry, French physician (born 1658). September 22 – Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (born 1708).
Edmond Pourchot (1651–1734) Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705) Edmond Halley (1656–1742) Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742) Jakob Hermann (1678–1733) Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678–1771) Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695–1726) Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)