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    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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    Halley's Comet, Comet Halley, or sometimes simply Halley, officially designated 1P/Halley, is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible...
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    began with early scientists such as James Cook, Charles Darwin, and Edmund Halley. Ocean exploration itself coincided with the developments in shipbuilding...
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    to its diameter. He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley. In November 1711, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was...
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    Comet (redirect from Halley-type comet)
    Heritage Books: Did the Arabs Discover the Periodicity of Comets Before Edmund Halley?". ASP Conference Series. 520: 83. Bibcode:2019ASPC..520...83K. Olson...
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    budget on De Historia piscium, and the cost of publication was borne by Edmund Halley (who was also then acting as publisher of the Philosophical Transactions...
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    and the astronomers Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Edmund Halley all used Al-Battānī's observations. Al-Battānī introduced the use of...
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    ". EarthSky.org. 16 August 2021. Aitken, Robert G. (October 1942). "Edmund Halley and Stellar Proper Motions". Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflets...
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    determines when star formation occurs in molecular clouds. In 1720, Edmund Halley considered a universe without edges and pondered what would happen if...
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    eclipse was made in France in 1706. Nine years later, English astronomer Edmund Halley accurately predicted and observed the solar eclipse of May 3, 1715....
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