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Categories: British geophysicists, Savilian Professors of Geometry, English inventors, 1656 births, Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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Halley  Edmond Halley  Edmund Halley  E. Halley  Edmund Haley
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English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) WordNet 3.0
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English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Edmond Halley was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Wikipedia
English astronomer Wikipedia Disambiguation
English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist Wikidata
IS A
astronomer
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Fellow of the Royal Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Great Britain
Kingdom of England
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
Oxford University
The Queen's College
St Paul's School
EMPLOYER
Royal Observatory
ETHNIC GROUP
English
FAMILY NAME
Halley
FIELD OF WORK
astronomer
astronomy
demography
geophysics
mathematician
+3 relations
GIVEN NAME
Edmund
Edmond
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
Latin
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
OCCUPATION
astronomer
mathematician
philosopher
physicist
demographer
+4 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Haggerston
PLACE OF BURIAL
St Margaret's, Lee
PLACE OF DEATH
Greenwich
RELIGION
deism
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
James Pound
STUDENT OF
Hooke
John Flamsteed
WORK LOCATION
Saint Helena
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Halley, Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley
Wikipedia
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Edmond Halley
Wikidata
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Edmond Halley
Wikipedia Redirections
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E. Halley, Edmund Haley, Edmund Halley, Exploration of Edmond Halley, Exploration of Edmund Halley, Exploration of Halley, Halley, Edmond, Sir Edmond Halley, Sir Edmund Halley
Wikidata Alias
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Edmond Halley

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