Edmond Halley: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Eugene Fairfield MacPike (ed.), Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley (1932), collects contemporary materials. More recent studies include Colin A. Ronan, Edmond Halley: Genius in Eclipse (1969); A. Armitage, Edmond Halley (1966); Peter Lancaster-Brown, Halley & His Comet (1985); and Norman J.W. Thrower (ed.), Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley (1990).
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Olin Jeuck Eggen
Senior Astronomer, Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, La Serena, Chile.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Jan 10, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 04, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space.com - Edmond Halley: An Extraordinary Scientist and the Second Astronomer Royal. | Nov 05, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Facts about Famous People - Edmond Halley Facts and Biography. | Jan 28, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Edmund Halley. | Jan 28, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Biography of Helmholtz Hermann von. | Feb 04, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wichita State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Biography of Edmond Halley. | Feb 04, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Galileo Project - Biography of Edmond Halley. | Feb 04, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Edmond Halley. | Feb 04, 2013 | ||
| Added image of Edmund Halley. | May 25, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Window To The Universe - Biography of Edmond Halley. | Apr 29, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 26, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - Edmond Halley. | Jun 13, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Biography of Edmond Halley. | Nov 28, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Edmond Halley. |
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Nov 23, 2006 | |
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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