Edmond Halley
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 282 years ago |
| Date of birth | November 8,1656 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Haggerston |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | January 14,1742 |
| Died | Greenwich |
| United Kingdom | |
| Discovered | Halley's Comet |
| Parents | Edmond Halley Sr. |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Mathematician | |
| Physicist | |
| Education | St Paul's School |
| The Queen's College, Oxford | |
| University of Oxford | |
| St Paul's Juniors | |
| The Queen's College | |
| Books | The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701 |
| The Gentleman's Steward and Tenants of Manors Instructed: Containing Rational, Easy, and Familiar Rules and Tables for Finding the Value of Estates of Freehold, Copyhold, Or Leasehold, as Well on Lives as for Years Absolute, &c. With an Enquiry Into the Nature of the Annual Disbursements, Precariousness of the Tenure, and Casualties, that Estates are Charged With, and how They are to be Accounted for in the Valuation. The Tables Being Founded on Dr. Halley's Hypothesis, and Calculated by the Method Laid Down by Abr. de Moivre | |
| Observations of the Late Total Eclipse of the Sun on the 22D of April Last Past, Made Before the Royal Society at Their House in Crane-Court in Fleet-Street, London: With an Account of What Has Been Communicated from Abroad Concerning the Same | |
| Astronomical Tables with Precepts, Both in English and Latin, for Computing the Places of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Comets | |
| A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets . . . Translated from the original, printed at Oxford | |
| An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind, Drawn from Curious Tables of the Births and Funerals at the City of Breslaw: With an Attempt to Ascertain the Price of Annuities Upon Lives | |
| Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebräick Equations by Dr. Halley's, Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's, Methods of Approximation | |
| Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley: Preceded by an Unpublished Memoir of His Life by One of His Contemporaries and the 'Éloge' by D'Ortous de Mairan | |
| Astronomical Tables | |
| Spouse | Mary Tooke |
| Children | Margaret Halley |
| Katherine Halley | |
| Edmond Halley | |
| Siblings | Katherine Halley |
| Humphrey Halley | |
| Nationality | British |
| English | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 459467 |
Edmond Halley Life story
Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.
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