* 1720 – 1742 Edmond Halley

Omega Centauri was determined to be nonstellar in 1677 by the English astronomer Edmond Halley, though it was visible as a star to the ancients.

This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval.

Edmond Halley in 1692 put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the diameters of the planets Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

Harrison was introduced to Graham by the Astronomer Royal Edmond Halley who also championed Harrison and his work.

He presented his ideas to Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal.

* 1656 – Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician ( d. 1742 )

On leaving the University of Oxford, in 1676, Edmond Halley visited Saint Helena and set up an observatory with a aerial telescope with the intention of studying stars from the Southern Hemisphere.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

Edmond Halley was the first to suggest, in 1695, that the mean motion of the Moon was apparently getting faster, by comparison with ancient eclipse observations, but he gave no data.

The precise recordkeeping of births and deaths by the city of Breslau led to the use of their data for analysis of mortality, first by John Graunt, and then later by Edmond Halley.

* 1717: The diving bell was successfully tested by Edmond Halley, sustainable to a depth of 55 ft

* James Bradley succeeds Edmond Halley as Astronomer Royal.

* January 14 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer ( b. 1656 )

* Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal.

* November 8 – Edmond Halley, English scientist ( d. 1742 )

* September – Halley's comet makes an appearance, just like Edmond Halley predicted before his death.

* Edmond Halley observes the transit of Venus.

Mathematicians, such as Edmond Halley, developed the life table as the basis for life insurance mathematics.

The comet's periodicity was first determined in 1705 by English astronomer Edmond Halley, after whom it is now named.

Spellings of Edmond Halley's name during his lifetime included Hailey, Haley, Halley, Hawley, and Hawly, so its correct pronunciation is uncertain.

Ultimately, it was Newton's friend, editor and publisher, Edmond Halley who, in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, used Newton's new laws to calculate the gravitational effects of Jupiter and Saturn on cometary orbits.

The three apparitions from 1531 to 1682 were noted by Edmond Halley, enabling him to predict its 1759 return.

He also gives starting at Lemma 4 and Proposition 40 ) the theory of the motions of comets ( for which much data came from John Flamsteed and from Edmond Halley ), and accounts for the tides, attempting quantitative estimates of the contributions of the Sun and Moon to the tidal motions ; and offers the first theory of the precession of the equinoxes.

The first person to employ the term as part of a publication's title was Edmond Demolins, another member of the Le Play School, whose article Géographie sociale de la France was published in 1896 and 1897.

He remained unsatisfied until a translation by Edmond Barbier was published in 1876.

" Shortly afterwards, the celebrated Edmond Hoyle published his Short Treatise ( 1742 ).

In addition is a magazine published by Back40 Design Group called The Edmond Outlook.

In 1897, the French poet Edmond Rostand published a play, Cyrano de Bergerac, on the subject of Cyrano's life.

Between 1905 and 1925, the brothers Arthur and Edmond Warner published a translation of the complete work in nine volumes, now out of print.

It was invented by Edmond Bruce in the early 1960s, and first published in the Amateur Yacht Research Society publication in April 1965.

Often these films were adaptations of classic historic novels published by well-known authors such as Alexandre Dumas, Rafael Sabatini, Baroness Emma Orczy, Sir Walter Scott, Johnston McCulley, and Edmond Rostand.

On 31 March 1796, Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone published his own exhaustive study, An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, about the supposed papers.

* Cursory criticisms on the edition of Shakespeare published by Edmond Malone, 1792

* John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis is first published, against his will and without credit by Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley with the influence of Dr. Arbuthnot.

* Edmond Halley's General Chart of the Variation of the Compass is first published, the first to show magnetic declination ( in the Atlantic Ocean ) and the first on which isogonic, or Halleyan, lines appear.

Jules de Goncourt ( Paris, 17 December 1830 – Paris, 20 June 1870 ), born Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond.

Two of his speeches in the Irish House of Commons, and some other miscellaneous works — including previously unpublished notes on the Corn Laws by Samuel Johnson — were published by Edmond Malone after his death under the title Parliamentary Logick.

* Jacques Derrida, " Edmond Jabès and the Question of the Book ", essay, published in Writing and Difference, Routledge, 2002

This sparked a debate consisting of a series of published papers culminating with those of Edmond Chester Waters and Edward Augustus Freeman who argued the theories could not be supported.

In 1686, Edmond Halley published his treatise on the Indian summer monsoon, which he attributed to a seasonal reversal of winds due to the differential heating of the Asian land mass and the Indian Ocean.

The commentary of Remigius of Auxerre ( late ninth century ), published by Edmond Martène, and the Sacramentary of Angoulême ( Bibl.

A detailed description of the instrument was given to Edmond Halley, but the description was not published until after Halley's death in 1742.

He published Modern German Literature, ( 1895 ); Modern French Literature, ( 1897 ); and A Century of French Fiction, ( 1898 ), which includes text about Edmond François Valentin About.

She translated Joseph Méry's André Chénier and Edmond François Valentin About's The King of the Mountains for Emerson's Magazine, which also published her own original articles.

This draft included the idea of an invisible maze -- a concept Sterling recalled as being derived from the story " The Monster-God of Mamurth " by Edmond Hamilton, published in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales, which featured an invisible building in the Sahara Desert.