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Paperback Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley Robert Stawell Ball Book

ISBN: 1544806078

ISBN13: 9781544806075

Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley Robert Stawell Ball

Edmond Halley, (1656-1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed. Halley became a close friend of Isaac Newton. He encouraged Newton to publish his discoveries, his "Principia," but when the Royal Society had no money to pay for the publication,...

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