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Definition of Edmond Halley
1. Noun. English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742).
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Literary usage of Edmond Halley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1911)
"To my cousin Edmond Halley [astronomer] and Mary his wife and to their daughters,
... Cosen Edmond Halley and Richard Pyke, guardians of my said son Francis ..."
2. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1905)
"Notes on Dr. Edmond Halley. The British Museum (London), pressmark 10882. K. 25.
... A Partial Bibliography of Dr. Edmond Halley. The Library of Congress, ..."
3. An Old Exeter Manuscript: A Short Chronicle of the Church of Exeter : Tenths by Oswald Joseph Reichel (1907)
"I am still to learn whose were the arms borne (according to Aubrey) by Edmond
Halley." Is it likely that a similar search under the surname Hawley would ..."
4. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of by Cambridge University Library (1857)
"A LETTER FROM Edmond Halley TO KING JAMES II. This accompanied a copy of ...
Edmond Halley. A small quarto, on paper, of 40 pages, in good preservation. ..."
5. DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES & QUERIES. (1907)
"I am still to learn whose were the arms borne (according to Aubrey) by Edmond
Halley." Is it likely that a similar search under the surname Hawley would ..."
6. The Letter of Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Dated 1484 by Diego Alvarez Chanca, Augstine Marcus Fernández de Ybarra (1907)
"Dr. Edmond Halley. Notes and queries, ninth series, io : 361-362 ; 11: 85-86,
205-206, 366, 463- 464; ... A Bibliography of Dr. Edmond Halley by Alexander ..."
7. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"With De Moivre, he joined the Royal Society's defense of Newton's claims in the
priority dispute over the invention of the calculus.29 Edmond Halley had ..."
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