English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
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An instance of the excellence of the modern algebra, in the resolution of the problem of finding the foci of optick glasses universally / By E. Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
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- Books
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- Books
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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]- Books
Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri octo, et Sereni Antissensis de sectione cylindri & coni libri duo / [Apollonius].
Apollonius of PergaDate: 1710