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In the year 1456...a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun...Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

Edmond Halley

Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.

Edmond Halley

Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Aether.

Edmond Halley

The sharply veering ways of comets, once A source of dread, no longer do we quail Beneath appearances of bearded stars.

Edmond Halley

We have reason to suspect that there are a great many more comets, which being at remote distances from the Sun, and being obscure and without a tail, may for that reason escape our observation.

Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley

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Born: November 8, 1656

Died: January 14, 1742 (aged 85)

Bio: Edmond Halley was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet.

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