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Edmund Halley

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Noun1.Edmund Halley - English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)Edmund Halley - English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)


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With any naked eye object it is impossible to know who the discoverer really was, but M13 is generally attributed to Edmund Halley who observed it in 1714.
amp;#183; William Stukeley, 18th-century antiquary, working with the astronomer Edmund Halley, said Stonehenge was completed in 460BC, and was aligned with magnetic north.
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