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, mathematician...
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Edmond Halley understood that these appearances were re-appearances of the same comet. As a result of this discovery, the comet is named after Halley...
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crater), a lunar crater named after Edmond Halley Halley (Martian crater), a Martian crater named after Edmond Halley Halley Research Station, a British research...
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after the astronomer Edmond Halley. Taken over by FIDS (subsequently BAS), it was designated as Base Z. The name was changed to Halley in 1977 as the original...
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report by Halley, in H. W. Turnbull (ed.), "Correspondence of Isaac Newton", Vol. 2, cited above, pp. 431–448. 'Cook, 1998': A. Cook, Edmond Halley, Charting...
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hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively...
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analysis, Halley's method is a root-finding algorithm used for functions of one real variable with a continuous second derivative. Edmond Halley was an English...
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September 2011 when it became an Academy. It adopted The Halley Academy (after Edmond Halley) in March 2018, when it joined the Leigh Academies Trust...
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Comet (redirect from Halley-type comet)
"Great Comet of 1882", and the "Great January Comet of 1910". After Edmond Halley demonstrated that the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were the same body...
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shown as Agostone but by the 19th century it had become Haggerstone, Edmond Halley was born in the village on 8 November 1656. He is known as the first...
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