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Edmond Halley - Astronomer

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Edmond Halley FRS (Nov 1656 – Jan 1742) was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain following John Flamsteed. 

He spent most of his lifetime in lunar observation. “Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion”  theory attract his attention and he met Sir Issac Newton in Cambridge to discuss Kepler’s theory to solve a problem in it. He was well known for computing the orbit of Halley’s Comet.

He was also known as an English astronomer, mathematician. physicist, meteorologist, and Geophysicist. 
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