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Fritz Weaver portrayed a fictional version of Halley in Comet Watch, a second-season episode of the anthology series Tales from the Darkside. Actor John Wood was cast as Edmond Halley in the TV series, Longitude in 2000. [69] Halley is a major figure in David Williamson's play Nearer the Gods, about Sir Isaac Newton
[4] For ease of cross-reference to the contents of De Motu that appeared again in the Principia, there are online sources for the Principia in English translation, [5] as well as in Latin. [6] De motu corporum in gyrum is short enough to set out here the contents of its different sections. It contains 11 propositions, labelled as 'theorems' and ...
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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
HMS Paramour was a 6-gun pink of the Royal Navy, briefly commanded by the astronomer Edmond Halley, initially as a civilian and later as a "temporary captain". Paramour was built by Fisher Harding of Deptford and launched in April 1694. She was rigged as a three-masted ship and was the first vessel built specifically as a research vessel for ...
Halley (lunar crater), a lunar crater named after Edmond Halley; Halley (Martian crater), a Martian crater named after Edmond Halley; Halley Research Station, a British research facility on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica
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