Edmond[1] (or
Edmund[2])
Halley,
FRS (;
[3][4] 8 November [
O.S. 29 October] 1656 – 25 January 1742 [
O.S. 14 January 1741]) was an English
astronomer,
geophysicist,
mathematician,
meteorologist, and
physicist. He was the second
Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding
John Flamsteed in 1720.
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