Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (1656-1742), portrait attributed to Isaac Whood, oil on canvas,

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Halley was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed.

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