* 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

Pioneers of the modern science of hydrology include Pierre Perrault, Edme Mariotte and Edmund Halley.

In 1715, Edmund Halley published a list of six nebulae.

Edmund Halley was a visitor the following year, observing the positions of 341 stars in the Southern hemisphere.

* January – Edmund Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion.

* December 10 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

* July 24 – Edmund Halley enters Queen's College at Oxford, as an undergraduate.

In 1712, Isaac Newton, then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data and published a pirated star catalogue.

The Society had just spent its book budget on a History of Fishes, and the cost of publication was borne by Edmund Halley ( who was also then acting as publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ): the book appeared in summer 1687.

He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling.

* 1718 — Edmund Halley discovers stellar proper motions by comparing his astrometric measurements with those of the Greeks

* 1720 — Edmund Halley puts forth an early form of Olbers ' paradox

* 1678 — Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey

* 1701 – Edmund Halley suggests using the salinity and evaporation of the Mediterranean to determine the age of the Earth

The Brief Lives includes biographies of such figures as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, John Dee, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, and William Shakespeare.

Early climate researchers include Edmund Halley, who published a map of the trade winds in 1686 after a voyage to the southern hemisphere.

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He recommended to the British Association in 1837, and in great part executed, the reduction of Joseph de Lalande's and Nicolas de Lacaille's catalogues containing about 57, 000 stars ; he superintended the compilation of the British Association's Catalogue of 8377 stars ( published 1845 ); and revised the catalogues of Tobias Mayer, Ptolemy, Ulugh Beg, Tycho Brahe, Edmund Halley and Hevelius ( Memoirs R. Astr.

In the eighteenth century Sir Edmund Halley and William Whiston ( Newton ’ s successor as Lucasian professor at Cambridge ) had theorized that one could calculate both the latitude and longitude of any position on the surface of the earth by measuring the magnetic dip of a compass needle.

In 1696 Chester mint was established and was managed by Edmund Halley in a building adjacent to the Half Moon tower.

His reign marks the reform of the Babylonian calendar, introducing regular calculated intercalary months, the eighteen-year cycle texts ( the 223 month “ Saros ” cycle, named for Edmund Halley ’ s misreading of a passage in Pliny ) and perhaps even the zodiac.

Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work on orbits, while John Flamsteed, the Royal Astronomer whose observations they were, wanted to keep the data secret until he had perfected it.

Working with the renowned astronomer Edmund Halley, he proposed that the builders of Stonehenge knew about magnetism, and had aligned the monument with magnetic north.

Saunderson possessed the friendship of many of the eminent mathematicians of the time, such as Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, Abraham De Moivre and Roger Cotes.

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* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

* criticisms ( by writers such as Joseph-Marie de Maistre and Edmund Burke ) of excesses of the French Revolution, and consequent rising doubts that reason and rationalism could solve all problems

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Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th century, including a huge event in 1279, presided over by the royal favourite Roger de Mortimer, in which a hundred knights competed for three days in the tiltyard in an event called " the Round Table ", in imitation of the popular Arthurian legends.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

* 1391 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician ( d. 1425 )

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.

Edmund Gosse, influenced by Théodore de Banville, was the first English writer to praise the villanelle and bring it into fashion with his 1877 essay " A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse ".

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This emphasis can be traced through Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, the late works of Merleau-Ponty ( Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1956 – 1960 ), and Martin Heidegger's hermeneutics.

* April 30 – Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, Duke of Suffolk ( b. 1471 )

* October 13 – Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician ( b. 1446 )

* March – French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, in Caen.

** Edmund de Langley, 1st duke of York ( d. 1402 )

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* date unknown – Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician ( d. 1508 )

* July – Mary de Ferrers is ordered to surrender land and Liverpool Castle to Edmund, second son of Henry III.

The Earl of Arundel, Sir Edmund Fitz Alan, an old enemy of Roger Mortimer, was beheaded on 17 November, together with two of the earl's retainers, John Daniel and Thomas de Micheldever.