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English: Edmond Halley's map of the trade winds, from (1686). "An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, Observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an Attempt to Assign the Phisical Cause of the Said Wind". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 16: 153-168.
Edmond Halley Biography (SEDS) Edmond Halley's 1716 paper describing how transits could be used to measure the Sun's distance, translated from Latin. A Halley Odyssey; The National Portrait Gallery (London) has several portraits of Halley: Search the collection Archived 19 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine; Halley, Edmond, An Estimate of the ...
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 totality. He also drew a predictive map showing the path of totality across the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Omega Centauri (ω Cen, NGC 5139, or Caldwell 80) is a globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus that was first identified as a non-stellar object by Edmond Halley in 1677. Located at a distance of 17,090 light-years (5,240 parsecs ), it is the largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way at a diameter of roughly 150 light-years. [ 10 ]
Officially designated 1P/Halley, it is also commonly called Comet Halley, or sometimes simply Halley. Halley's periodic returns to the inner Solar System have been observed and recorded by astronomers around the world since at least 240 BC, but it was not until 1705 that the English astronomer Edmond Halley understood that these appearances ...
In 1705 Edmond Halley asserted that the comet of 1682 is periodical with a highly elongated elliptical orbit around the Sun, and predicts its return in 1757. [86] Johann Palitzsch observed in 1758 the return of the comet that Halley had anticipated. [87] The interference of Jupiter's orbit had slowed the return by 618 days.
Halley's map of the path of the Solar eclipse of 3 May 1715 across England. 1704 – John Locke enters the term "Solar System" in the English language, when he used it to refer to the Sun, planets, and comets as a whole. [102] 1705 – Edmond Halley publicly predicts the periodicity of the comet of 1682 and computes its expected path of return ...