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Edmond Halley
Edmond
(or
Edmund
)
Halley
,
FRS
(pronounced ; 8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742) 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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