Edmond Halley
1656–1742
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
astronomer · physicist · mathematician
Born in Haggerston
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Edmond Halley:
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
- Molière (1622–1673)
- Adam Smith (1723–1790)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
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