Not who you're looking for? Others named Edmond Halley: English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologi
“Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.”
“The Astreonomical Elements of the Motions in a Parabolick Orb of all the Comets that have been hitherto duly obferv'd. ...This Table needs little Explication, since 'tis plain enough from the Titles, what the Numbers mean. Only it maybe observ'd, that the Perihelium Distances, are estimated in such Parts, as the Middle Distance of the Earth from the Sun, contains 100000.”
“A General Table for Calculating the Motions of Comets in a Parabolical Orbit.”
“5. From these Things given (by the very same Rules that we find the Planets Places, from the Suns Place and Distance given) we may obtain the Apparent or Geocentrick Place of the Comet, together with the Apparent Latitude. And this it may be worth while to illustrate by an Example or two.”
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