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Edmond Halley

1656 - 1742

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Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 – 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741]) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, Halley catalogued the southern celestial hemisphere and recorded a transit of Mercury across the Sun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond Halley has received more than 1,303,050 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Edmond Halley is the 19th most popular astronomer (down from 17th in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 208th in 2019) and the most popular British Astronomer.

Edmond Halley is most famous for his comet that orbits the sun and reappears every 76 years.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Edmond Halley ranks 19 out of 531. Before him are Ole Rømer, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Carl Sagan, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Aryabhata, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. After him are Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Charles Messier, Giuseppe Piazzi, and Johannes Hevelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Edmond Halley ranks 1. After him are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Marin Marais, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Robert de Cotte, Guillaume Dubois, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Ferdinand de Marsin. Among people deceased in 1742, Edmond Halley ranks 1. After him are Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Pylyp Orlyk, Friedrich Hoffmann, Arvid Horn, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Carlos Seixas, Luigi Guido Grandi, and Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmond Halley ranks 263 out of 7,765. Before him are Anthony Giddens (1938), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Graham Greene (1904), Edmund I (921), Bede (672), and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545). After him are Jimmy Page (1944), Andrew Carnegie (1835), David Lloyd George (1863), John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), and George Everest (1790).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Edmond Halley ranks 1. After him are Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Fred Hoyle (1915), Arthur Eddington (1882), James Bradley (1693), John Flamsteed (1646), Martin Ryle (1918), George Darwin (1845), William Lassell (1799), Stephen Gray (1666), Antony Hewish (1924), and William Huggins (1824).

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