Edmond Halley

(1656-1742)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742 NRA: Halley Edmond (1656-1742) Astronomer DNB: Halley, Edmond (1656–1742), astronomer LBT ID: EdHalle1742 VIAF ID: 71400665 LOC ID: n50018459	B/BAP: 1656-10-29 DIED: 1742-01-14
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English astronomer educated at St. Paul's School and Queen's College, Oxford; he computed the orbit of Halley's Comet.
REFERENCES TO Edmond Halley: Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth, [25 November 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 4