* 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 )

Edmond Halley published the first measurements of the proper motion of a pair of nearby " fixed " stars, demonstrating that they had changed positions from the time of the ancient Greek astronomers Ptolemy and Hipparchus.

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.

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 term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

but I have only one ye now, and hardly that .’ I was really quite touched ". On 5 November Reynolds, fearing he may not have an opportunity to write a will, wrote a memorandum intended to be his last will and testament, with Edmund Burke, Edmond Malone and Philip Metcalfe named as executors.

Edmond Ludlow made several attempts to reconcile the army and parliament in this time period but was ultimately unsuccessful.

General Edmond Ludlow, still loyal to the Rump Parliament was also excepted.

The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada ( GSC ).

It was widely supported in the Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by Robert Edmond Grant, but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's ideas of divergence, and attacked by Richard Owen in the 1830s.

And now the proclamation of Pretorius was followed by protests on the part of the British high commissioner, Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, as well as on the part of the consul-general for Portugal in South Africa.

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.

A few years later in 1841, a simple and efficient artificial hand-pollination method was developed by a 12-year-old slave named Edmond Albius on Réunion, a method still used today.

Later, Edmond O ' Brien was cast in the part.

This was followed by revivals of Racine's Phèdre ( 24 February ), Octave Feuillet's Dalila ( 8 March ), Gaston de Wailly's Patron Bénic ( 14 March ), Edmond Rostand's La Samaritaine ( 25 March ), and Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias on 9 April.

At the same time ( according to Edmond Halley's contemporary report ) Hooke agreed that " the Demonstration of the Curves generated therby " was wholly Newton's.

Edmond Malone asserted that " his appearance at first sight impressed the spectator with the idea of a well-born and well-bred English gentleman.

Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898 The production of his heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac ( 28 December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin ), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title-role, was a triumph.

The name " saros " () was first given to the eclipse cycle by Edmond Halley in 1691, who took it from the Suda, a Byzantine lexicon of the 11th century.

When Eta Carinae was first catalogued in 1677 by Edmond Halley, it was of the 4th magnitude, but by 1730, observers noticed it had brightened considerably and was, at that point, one of the brightest stars in Carina.

The first mayor and city officers were elected in May 1889, and Edmond ’ s population was 394 in the 1890 census.

The first public schoolhouse in Oklahoma Territory, completed in August 1889, is in Edmond and still stands as a historic monument on 2nd Street between Boulevard and Broadway.

This event was the first in a string of postal employee murder-suicides throughout the U. S. A memorial to the victims of that tragic event stands outside of the U. S. Post Office in downtown Edmond.

The first Blackadder is named after the treacherous Edmond from Shakespeare's King Lear.

He became the first jazz pianist to double on celeste ( starting in 1936 ) and was featured on that instrument on a Blue Note quartet date with Edmond Hall and Charlie Christian.

The first person to demonstrate publicly how this could be done was Edmond Halley ( of Halley's comet fame ).

Edmond Hamilton's earliest science fiction stories also first appeared in Wright's Weird Tales.

The first president of the college, Dr. Edmond Volpe, an American literature scholar, retired in 1994, after having successfully handled the merger of the two colleges and the unification of the two campuses.

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

Elio Di Rupo is the first francophone to hold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979, as well as the country's first socialist Prime Minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974.

Also in that year, Kramer produced Cyrano de Bergerac, the first English language film version of Edmond Rostand's 1897 French play.

Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.