Edmond Halley

English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)

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An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle, with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the earth, as it was proposed to the Royal Society in one of their late meetings / By Edmund Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708
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An estimate of the degrees of the mortality of mankind : drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw; with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708
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Catalogus stellarum Australium sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici : exhibens longitudines & latitudines stellarum fixarum, quæ, prope Polum Antarcticum sitæ, in horizonte Uraniburgico Tychoni inconspicuæ fuere, accurato calculo ex distantiis supputatas, &c ad annum 1677 completum correctas eum ipsis observationibus in insula S. Helene (cujus Latit. 15 gr. 55 m. Aust. & long. 7 gr. 00 m. ad occasum a Londino) summa cura & sextante satis magno de cœlo depromptis. Opus ab astonomis hactenus desideratum. Accedit appendicula de rebus quibusdam astonomicis, notatu non indignis. Authore Edmundo Halleio, e Col. Reg. Oxon.
Edmond HalleyDate: Anno Christi MDCLXXIX. [1679]
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Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri octo, et Sereni Antissensis de sectione cylindri & coni libri duo / [Apollonius].
Apollonius of PergaDate: 1710
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A theory of the variation of the magnetical compass / By Ed. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708

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An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle, with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the earth, as it was proposed to the Royal Society in one of their late meetings / By Edmund Halley.

An estimate of the degrees of the mortality of mankind : drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw; with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives / By E. Halley.

Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri octo, et Sereni Antissensis de sectione cylindri & coni libri duo / [Apollonius].

A theory of the variation of the magnetical compass / By Ed. Halley.

Scientists / edited, with an introduction, by H.A. Feisenberger.

Edmund Halley. Line engraving by A. Birrell, 1795, after R. Phillips.

Halley (1656-1742) in 90 minutes / John and Mary Gribbin.

Fatal attraction : magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara.

Standing on the shoulders of giants : a longer view of Newton and Halley / edited by Norman J.W. Thrower.

Edmond Halley

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An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle, with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the earth, as it was proposed to the Royal Society in one of their late meetings / By Edmund Halley.

An estimate of the degrees of the mortality of mankind : drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw; with an attempt to ascertain the price of annuities upon lives / By E. Halley.

Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri octo, et Sereni Antissensis de sectione cylindri & coni libri duo / [Apollonius].

A theory of the variation of the magnetical compass / By Ed. Halley.

Scientists / edited, with an introduction, by H.A. Feisenberger.

Edmund Halley. Line engraving by A. Birrell, 1795, after R. Phillips.

Halley (1656-1742) in 90 minutes / John and Mary Gribbin.

Fatal attraction : magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara.

Standing on the shoulders of giants : a longer view of Newton and Halley / edited by Norman J.W. Thrower.

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