Edmund Halley (circa 1690)

Edmond Halley, FRS (8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet.

Quotes

  • Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
    • As quoted in An Essay towards a History of the principal Comets that have appeared since the Year 1742 (1769), p. 49.  Halley's Comet reappeared on December 25, 1758.
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