Edmond Halley

Nov, 8, 1656. St. Paul's School. The Queens College, Oxford Geophysicist. Mathematician. Meteorologist. Physicist. Cartographer. Astronomer Royal. Comet Guy.

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@JLLagrange1 I know, I'm the greatest.

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http://t.co/VfWG8tGbv0
This sight is...by far the noblest astronomy affords. Except for the Transit of Venus. That's cool.

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Dude, I made this sweet compass thing. BRB finding laws governing the variation of the compass and terrestrial magnetism #isogoniclinesLOL

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@JLLagrange1 My comet. Proper motion. The AU. Solar heating causing atmosphere motions. Getting Newton to publicize G. The list goes on.

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@JLLagrange1 You mean my article on life annuities? This article allowed the British gov to sell them at a good price based on age. #Breslau

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@Messi02090 Sorry, I can't hear you over my charting of 341 southern stars + my additions to star maps that people compared to Tycho's.

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@JLLagrange1 Nice! What did you read? Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae? My observations on my Helenian expeditions? My sunspot stuff?

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@Messi02090 So what? Finders keepers. I got dibs, man. I got that periodicity DOWN. 110 Messier Objects but Halley's Comet ain't one! #rekt

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@Messi02090 Still looking for that comet?T That one, important, historically significant comet? I found it. You didn't. Ha. #sorrynotsorry

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@newt_isaac I think it's real important and #deep stuff, man. Try to make it a treatise, but take your time.

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@Ptolemyxoxo I'd prefer my place in Saint Helena, but w/e. #1500yearsL8

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@Ptolemyxoxo Will do. I've got a typical Gregorian design, and a large sextant with telescopic sights. That should work fine.

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@Ptolemyxoxo Perhaps I could add details about the 341 southern stars I cataloged. Or do something about that epicycle ideology.

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@Ptolemyxoxo Yeah, thanks for helping me prove the significant motion of "fixed" stars! #astrometrical #goodread

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@Ptolemyxoxo Can confirm. Discovered proper motion by comparing my astronomical measurements with his in this book. 10/10 would recommend.

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@CopernicusAstro Sirius, Arcturus, and Aldebaran are over half a degree away from their positions from over 1850 years ago! #ProperMotion

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@CopernicusAstro Hey, you just did your thing based on guessing. That turned out okay.

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@CopernicusAstro You wouldn't know about it if it weren't for me. #trudat

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@CopernicusAstro @Ptolemyxoxo Oh, I know it. I used Newton's heliocentric- based equations to figure out the return of my comet. It worked.

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@TychoBrahee @newt_isaac Went to discuss the proof of Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion. He figured it out already. #legend