Edmund Halley

The records of the early astronomers royal, including Edmund Halley and John Flamsteed, will also be put online.

Sir Isaac Newton's own annotated Principia Mathematica goes online 2011

Astronomer Edmund Halley and architect Sir Christopher Wren suspected that there was an inverse square relation governing celestial motions based on Kepler's Third Law of elliptical orbits, but no one could prove it.

Does Latin "train the brain"? 2006

Always alert for omens, Jane may have looked for hopeful signs that he would survive, such as the widely discussed comet named for its British discoverer, Edmund Halley, which neared the earth in its seventy-five-year cycle in the late autumn of his arrival.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Always alert for omens, Jane may have looked for hopeful signs that he would survive, such as the widely discussed comet named for its British discoverer, Edmund Halley, which neared the earth in its seventy-five-year cycle in the late autumn of his arrival.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Then, of course, there was Edmund Halley, he of comet fame -- he was equally certain that the flooding had been caused by a passing comet.

Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986

Then, of course, there was Edmund Halley, he of comet fame -- he was equally certain that the flooding had been caused by a passing comet.

Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986

Newton's friend Edmund Halley in the preface to his edition of Apollonius.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

Edmund Halley had introduced into the first edition of the Principia.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

Edmund Halley, eminent British astronomer, translator of difficult works from antiquity, and personal friend to Isaac Newton; and then, quite formally, in 1743, by the youthful Swiss gentlemen astronomer Jean

SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

The early experiments of Pascal were developed by Edmund Halley, Edme Mariotte,

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