Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3674.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3674. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer and scientist, born in Hagerston, Shoreditch (near London), became professor at Oxford and second Astronomer Royal at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. From the island of St Helena, he cataloged the positions of about 350 southern hemisphere stars (Catalogus Stellarum Australium), including his own discovery of the globular cluster Omega Centauri; he also discovered the globular cluste...

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