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What position did Edmond Halley hold at the University of Oxford beginning in 1704?
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Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley, detail of an oil painting by Richard Phillips, c. 1720; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In 1704, Edmond Halley was appointed as the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford.1