Edmond Halley (1656-1742)

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Name (English)
Edmond Halley
Short name
Edmund Halley
Year of birth
1656
Year of death
1742
Short Description
"Edmond (or Edmund) Halley, FRS (/ˈhæli/; 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 – 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741]) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.

From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena, Halley recorded a transit of Mercury across the Sun. He realised a similar transit of Venus could be used to determine the size of the Solar System. He also used his observations to expand contemporary star maps. He aided in observationally proving Isaac Newton´s laws of motion, and funded the publication of Newton´s influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.From his September 1682 observations, he used the laws of motion to compute the periodicity of Halley´s Comet in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets. It was named after him upon its predicted return in 1758, which he did not live to see." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
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