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Edmond Halley
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Author : Alan H. Cook
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998
Edmond Halley written by Alan H. Cook and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), MA, LLD, FRS, Capt. RN, Savillian Professor of Geometry and Astronomer Royal, stands pre-eminent among Oxford, English, and European scientists. A contemporary of Wren, Pepys, Hooke, Handel, Purcell, and Dryden, he was a schoolboy in London while the Great Fireraged, and was an active participant in the Enlightenment, an age of profound developments in all the arts and sciences. As a younger contemporary of Isaac Newton, he had a crucial part in the Newtonian revolution in the natural sciences. It was Halley who set the question that led Newton to writethe Principia, and who edited, paid for, and reviewed it. In later years he applied the methods of the Principia widely in astronomy and geophysics. Now more widely known for his prediction of the return of "his" comet, Halley discovered the proper motion of stars, made important studies of themoon's motion, and his investigations of the Earth's magnetic field and of tides were unrialled for centuries. His prediction of the transit of Venus led to Cook's voyage to Tahiti. He was far more than an cloistered academic; his exploits as a naval captain led to perilous adventures, and he wasalso a notable servant of the State. Much material about his eventful career has come to light in recent years, making this a timely new account of the life, scientific interests, and continuing influence of this engaging and adventurous scholar. Sir Alan Cook has written a fascinating andilluminating account of Halley's life and science, making this a unique and highly readable biography of one of the key figures of his time.
Correspondence And Papers Of Edmond Halley
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Author : Edmond Halley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Correspondence And Papers Of Edmond Halley written by Edmond Halley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Astronomers categories.
Edmond Halley More Than A Man With A Comet
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Author : D. C. Ipsen
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2004-11-02
Edmond Halley More Than A Man With A Comet written by D. C. Ipsen and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-02 with Science categories.
Today Edmond Halley is known as the scientist whose comet returns every 75 years or so. But he was a man of many talents who did much more than make a prediction about a comet that happen to appear during his time. Probably Halleys biggest impact on history was from an idea for finding the distance to the sun. After viewing a transit of Mercury across the suns face during a starmapping trip to the southern hemisphere, Halley hit on the idea of timing a transit of Venus in different parts of the world as a way of discovering the distance to the sun. Halleys scheme would eventually send Captain James Cook on his first voyage into the South Pacific aboard Endeavour years after Halleys death. Halley himself made several scientific trips to southern waters. His aim was to investigate the earths magnetic field, but he was also charged with attempting to discover new lands in the South Atlantic. Beyond a scrap of land many miles off the coast of Brazil, he found nothing new in the way of land. But measurements of the earths magnetism gave support for his ingenious theory of how the earth is put together. Adventurer Halley also gained fame as an early underwater explorer. He developed a diving bell and a diving helmet and used them under the waters of the English Channel, intending eventually to hunt for sunken treasure. Halley was surely the 17th centurys most active promoter of science, serving for years as editor for publications of the influential Royal Society. He is acclaimed for encouraging the reluctant Isaac Newton to publish his ideas about motion and gravity. Altogether, Halley gave the world much more than a name for a speedy comet.
Edmond Halley Genius In Eclipse
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Author : Colin A. Ronan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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Correspondence And Papers Of Edmund Halley
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Author : Edmond Halley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
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The Halley Lecture
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
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Edmond Halley
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Author : David K. Love
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-11-15
Edmond Halley written by David K. Love and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-15 with Science categories.
Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the nature of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery is enough to make the career of any scientist, Halley’s massive contributions to the fields of astronomy, philosophy, history, mathematics, engineering, and actuarial science – the latter of which he founded single-handedly – as a young man and eventually as Astronomer Royal are mostly overlooked. Edmond Halley: The Astronomer Royal Who Brought the Universe to Earth is a revelatory and deeply researched biography of a man whose defining achievement isn’t even the half of it. A jack-of-all-trades when it came to scientific reasoning, an all-around academic, Renaissance man, and workaholic who couldn’t leave well enough alone, Halley was amazingly productive and prolific. He was behind some of the most groundbreaking pieces of discovery in human history: it was Halley who was the first to survey the skies and plot the stars of the southern hemisphere; he published Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, which many argue is the most important scientific text ever written; in the field of history, he translated the works of ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius and calculated the date of Julius Caesar’s arrival in Britain; he captained the ship Paramore on a scientific expedition to plot the Earth’s magnetic fields, not losing a single original crewmember on the mission; Halley was the first to calculate mortality annuities, creating the foundation for actuarial science; he made improvements to the diving bell, surveyed the tides of the English channel, and led the movement to accurately measure the distance between the Earth and Sun, unlocking the key to determining the distance to the nearest stars. In this incisive and surprising biography, author David K. Love reveals the boundless mind and endless curiosity of Edmond Halley, a man whom many readers may think they already know. From his inventions and innovations to his personal life, Edmond Halley firmly cements the legacy of the second Astronomer Royal among the first-rate scientists of his time.
Scheduling The Heavens
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Author : Mary Virginia Fox
language : en
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Scheduling The Heavens written by Mary Virginia Fox and has been published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Astronomers categories.
A young adult biography of English astronomer Edmund Halley
A Plain Declaration Of The Vulgar New Heavens Flatform Serving Not Onely Fore This Age But Also Fore The Future Age Of 100 Years Written To Accompany A Dialling Instrument By Edmund Halley
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Author : Edmond Halley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1679
A Plain Declaration Of The Vulgar New Heavens Flatform Serving Not Onely Fore This Age But Also Fore The Future Age Of 100 Years Written To Accompany A Dialling Instrument By Edmund Halley written by Edmond Halley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1679 with Astronomy categories.
Edmond Halley The Man Three Articles Reprinted From Periodicals
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Author : Eugene Fairfield MACPIKE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Edmond Halley The Man Three Articles Reprinted From Periodicals written by Eugene Fairfield MACPIKE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with categories.