English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist

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Edmund Halley. Line engraving after R. Phillips.

Edmund Halley. Line engraving by G. Vertue after R. Phillips.

Edmund Halley. Line engraving after M. Dahl.

Edmund Halley. Stipple engraving by W. T. Fry after M. Dahl.

Edmund Halley. Line engraving after G. White after Sir G. Kneller.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Edmund Halley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, 1722, after T. Murray, 1712.

Edmund Halley. Stipple engraving after M. Dahl.

Edmund Halley. Line engraving after Sir G. Kneller.

Fame, with a lamp, hovering among clouds over the earth: around her are seven portraits of philosophers in ovals. Engraving by T. Millow, 1804, after R. Smirke.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Edmond Halley

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Images featuring Edmond Halley

Works from the collections

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.

Edmond Halley

Images from the collections

Images featuring Edmond Halley

Works from the collections

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.

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