Stephen I
Stephen I king of Hungary: see Stephen, Saint (975-1038).
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Edmond Halley's Life Table and Its Uses*
Magazine article from: Journal of Legal Economics; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...denotes formulae omitted.) Edmond Halley (1656-1742) was a remarkable...economics, and actuarial science. Halley was fortunate to have been born into...first-rate education for his son. Halley enrolled in Oxford University at...
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Edmond Halley - explorer. (the comet's namesake was also an 18th century explorer sailing as far as Antarctica)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Edmond Halley is best known by the comet that bears his name, but at the turn of the...Atlantic standards. It was maritime history's least likely Blackbeard -- Edmond Halley, FRS. Appearances deceived; Halley was no buccaneer, yet Bryant...
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City scientist Toby is following footsteps of Halley
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 2/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...his name to a comet - but when it came to charting new territories astronomer Edmond Halley blazed his own trail. Halley the man's fame may now be eclipsed by Halley's Comet, but in 1698 he was being hailed a hero for embarking on one of the...
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Halley's Comet is coming.
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post; 5/1/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...best bet for the first sighting of Halley's (pronounced as in "alleys...learned the Earth would pass through Halley's tail, many people were panicked...serendipitously appeared on the market. Edmond Halley got excited about comets in 1682...
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Blazing a path.(Mark Twain and Halley's Comet)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 5/1/2009; ; 669 words
; ...have in common? In a remarkable coincidence, Halley's Comet was sweeping through the sky in both...1835, and the year he died, 1910. Why is Halley's Comet so famous? Before Edmond Halley (1656-1742) published his mathematical calculations...
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A mote of dust. (Comet Halley)
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post; 3/1/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...Eiseley had lived to see it. Comet Halley is unique in our epoch--a bright...human species. You look up and see Halley's Comet--through a pair of binoculars...perihelion passage of 1682) that Edmond Halley saw the summer after he and Mary...
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Halley's quest; a selfless genius and his troubled Paramore.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 12/1/2006; 485 words
; 0309095948 Halley's quest; a selfless genius and his troubled Paramore. Wakefield...261 pages $27.95 Hardcover Q115 Science writer Wakefield describes Edmond Halley's greatest achievement, which was not predicting the course of the...
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Gravity tugs at the center of priority battle.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/18/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...incomparable treatise," says Edmond Halley, clerk to the Royal Society for...inverse-square law. According to Halley, however, Newton insists that he...had not come upon it by accident, Halley says. In the latest development...
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Books: Heroes carrying microscopes David Wootton enjoys a study of the men - and women - who founded modern science
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...ambitions of men such as Newton, Boyle, Halley, Leeuwenhoek (the discoverer of...his vacuum pump were important to Edmond Halley in designing a diving bell to raise...plant life. Second to Hooke comes Halley, astronomer, cartographer, and...
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Cape expertise builds ice station; Design is a world first.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 6/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...part of the manufacturing team for the new Halley VI Research Station which is to be built...which is the overall project manager. The Halley station, which is named after astronomer Edmond Halley, is considered to be the UK's most isolated...
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Halley, Edmond
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Halley, Edmond ( b. London, England, 29 October 1656[?]; d. Greenwich, England, 14 January 1743) astronomy, geophysics. Halley was the eldest son of Edmond Halley, a prosperous landowner, salter, and sopmaker of the City...
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Halley, Edmond (1656-1743)
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Halley, Edmond (1656-1743) English astronomer The son of a wealthy merchant, Edmond Halley was attracted to astronomy after seeing two comets as a child. By the...
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Edmond Halley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edmond Halley , 1656-1742, English astronomer and...took 18 years. Other discoveries of Halley's are the proper motions of the stars...A. Ronan (1970); L. Baldwin, Edmond Halley and His Comet (1985).
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Halley’s Comet
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Halley ’ s Comet Edmond Halley ’ s prediction Halley...named after English astronomer Edmond Halley (1656 – 1742), the...space probe Giotto are correct. Edmond Halley ’ s prediction In the...
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Halley's comet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Halley's comet or Comet Halley , periodic comet named for Edmond Halley, who observed it in 1682 and identified it as the one observed in 1531 and 1607. Halley did not live to see its return in 1758, close to the time he predicted. It reappeared...
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