Edmund Halley

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Fellow of the Royal Society astronomer geophysicist human mathematician meteorologist physicist

Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.

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Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Fellow of the Royal Society → astronomer → geophysicist → human → mathematician → meteorologist → physicist →
ageAtDeath	85 →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of England →
dateOfBirth	1656-11-08 →
dateOfDeath	1742-01-14 →
educatedAt	St Paul’s School, London → The Queen’s College, Oxford NERFINISHED →
employer	Royal Observatory, Greenwich →
endTimeOfPositionAstronomerRoyal	1742 →
ethnicGroup	English →
familyName	Halley →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → geophysics → mathematics → meteorology → navigation →
givenName	Edmund →
knownFor	Halley’s eclipse map of 1715 → Halley’s method for solving equations → Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky → computing the orbit of Halley’s Comet → early life table in demography → magnetic charts of the Atlantic Ocean → predicting the periodicity of Halley’s Comet → work on stellar proper motions →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	Royal Society →
name	Edmund Halley →
patronOf	Isaac Newton →
placeOfBirth	Haggerston → near London →
placeOfDeath	Greenwich →
positionHeld	Astronomer Royal →
publication	An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693) → paper on the orbits of comets (1705) → star catalogue of the southern hemisphere (1679–1678 observations) →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Mary Tooke →
startTimeOfPositionAstronomerRoyal	1720 →
studied	Earth’s magnetic field → comets → trade winds →
supervisedPublication	Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica →
workLocation	Greenwich → Oxford → St Helena →

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The Queen's College, Oxford →	alumnus
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Edmond Halley") →	dedicatedTo
M13 ("Edmond Halley") →	discoveredBy
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Edmond Halley") →	editor
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Edmond Halley") →	fundedBy
Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford →	hasNotableHolder
Astronomer Royal ("Edmond Halley") →	hasTitleHolder
Edmund Halley →	name
Halley Research Station ("Edmond Halley") →	namedAfter