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Halley   /hˈæli/  /hˈeɪli/   Listen
Halley

noun
1.
English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742).  Synonyms: Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley.





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"Halley" Quotes from Famous Books



... being a comet is that comets are in danger of losing a great part of their substance every time they approach the sun. Halley's comet, which used to be such a wonderful sight, has dwindled away to a very great extent. When it came a few years ago scarcely any one ...
— Fifty-Two Story Talks To Boys And Girls • Howard J. Chidley
... fourteen years of age when the birth of Edmund Halley, who was destined in after years to become Newton's warmly attached friend, and one of his most illustrious scientific contemporaries, took place. There can be little doubt that the fame as an astronomer which Halley ultimately acquired, great as it certainly was, would have been even greater ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball


Words linked to "Halley" :   astronomer, stargazer, uranologist


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