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Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… had also been made to obtain the observations, which Dr. Halley had collected. The attempt to keep these as private …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1678
… was granted for conferring the degree of M.A. on Edmund Halley of Queen's College, the astronomer ( pp. 517, 528). …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… brother in captivity (p. 294). At the request of Edmund Halley, the astronomer, he was particularly recommended to …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… Pursuits. The eminent philosopher and astronomer, Edmund Halley, conceived that he had discovered the true cause of …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… was unfavourably reported on by Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Halley, as it was weak in virtue and uncertain in its …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… and the matter had exercised the powerful minds of Newton, Halley, and others, who were of opinion that expensive …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… which in 1682 one of the greatest astronomers of England (Halley) gave his name. I do not know what contemporaneous …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… in wood ( c.174067). Took apps named Theakston in 1753, Halley in 1754 and Kidson in 1759. [S of G, app. index] …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… (f. 73.) Indult to Master John de Monte Luelli, rector of Halley, in the diocese of Norwich, to hold two additional …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Life of Alfred, pp. 226238 (Oxford, 1709) from a copy by Halley, and by Gale, Itin. Antonini (London, 1709), p. 134; …