Edmond Halley
Edmond (or Edmund) Halley, FRS (pronoonced /ˈɛdmənd ˈhæli/; 8 November 1656 – 25 Januar 1742) wis an Inglis astronomer, geopheesicist, mathematician, meteorologist, an pheesicist wha is best kent for computin the orbit o the eponymous Halley's Comet.
He wis the seicont Astronomer Royal in Breetain, succeedin John Flamsteed.
Edmond Halley | |
|---|---|
 Portrait bi Thomas Murray, c. 1687 | |
| Born | 8 November 1656 Haggerston, Middlesex, Ingland |
| Dee'd | 25 Januar 1742 (aged 85) Greenwich, Kent, Ingland |
Restin place | St. Margaret's, Lee, Sooth Lunnon |
| Naitionality | Inglis, Post 1707 |
| Alma mater | The Queen's College, Oxford |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Mary Tooke |
| Bairns | Edmond Halley (d. 1741) Margaret (d. 1713) Richelle (d. 1748) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy, geopheesics, mathematics, meteorology, pheesics, cairtografie |
| Institutions | Varsity o Oxford Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
References
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Scots article Edmond Halley, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available unner CC BY-SA 4.0 unless itherwise notit. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Scots (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.