Author:Edmond Halley

←

Edmond Halley
(1656–1742)

→

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, quotes, Wikidata item

English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist, who is best known for computing the orbit of Halley's comet, after whom the comet is named in honor.

Works

An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind, drawn from curious Tables of the Births and Funerals at the City of Breslaw; with an Attempt to ascertain the Price of Annuities upon Lives, Philosophical Transactions, January, 1692

A new Method of determining the Parallax of the Sun, or his Distance from the Earth. Philosophical Transactions, Vol. XXIX (1716) No 348, p. 454. Translation of Halley's paper from Latin is taken from the Abridged Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume VI, pp.243-249, published in 1809.

An account of the circulation of the watry vapours of the sea, and of the cause of springs

Works about Halley

"Halley, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
"Halley, Edmund," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Halley, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse