Edmond Halley did not survive to see the return of what later was named Halley's Comet, on Christmas Day in 1758.

Later works
Halley had the ability to reduce large amounts of data to a meaningful order. In 1686 his map of the world, showing the distribution of prevailing winds over the oceans, was the first meteorological chart to be published. His mortality tables for the city of Breslau, Ger. (now Wrocław, Pol.), published in 1693, comprised one of the first attempts to relate mortality and age in a population; as such, it influenced the future development of actuarial tables in life insurance. Under instructions from the Admiralty, he commanded the war sloop Paramore Pink in 1698–1700 on one of the first sea voyages undertaken for purely scientific purposes, this one to make measurements of the compass declination in the South Atlantic and to determine accurate latitudes and longitudes of his ports of call. (The declination is the angle between magnetic north and true north.) In 1701 he published the first magnetic charts of the Atlantic Ocean and some of the Pacific Ocean, showing curved lines that indicated positions in the oceans having the same compass declination. These charts, compiled from all available observations and augmented by his own, were intended to be useful for navigation and perhaps to solve the great problem of determining the longitude at sea. However, because it was difficult to determine the compass declination with sufficient accuracy and because it was soon discovered that compass declination can vary from year to year, this method of finding longitude was never widely adopted. Notwithstanding opposition from Flamsteed, Halley in 1704 was appointed Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford.

Halley’s Comet: March, 1986 [Credit: NASA/National Space Science Data Center]Continuing his pioneering work in observational astronomy, Halley published in 1705 A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, in which he described the parabolic orbits of 24 comets that had been observed from 1337 to 1698. He showed that the three historic comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were so similar in characteristics that they must have been successive returns of the same visitant—now known as Halley’s Comet—and accurately predicted its return in 1758.

Halley, Edmond [Credit: © Hemera/Thinkstock]In 1716 he devised a method for observing transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun, predicted for 1761 and 1769, in order to determine accurately, by solar parallax, the distance of Earth from the Sun. In 1718, by comparing recently observed star positions with data recorded in the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy’s Almagest, he found that Sirius and Arcturus had slightly shifted their positions with respect to their neighbours. This was the discovery of what modern astronomers call proper motion. (Halley incorrectly announced proper motions for two other stars, Aldebaran and Betelgeuse, but for these was misled by errors in the ancient star positions.) In 1720 Halley succeeded Flamsteed as astronomer royal at Greenwich, where he made observations, such as timing the transits of the Moon across the meridian, that he hoped would eventually be useful in determining longitude at sea.

Halley’s significance
Halley’s concern with practical applications of science, such as problems of navigation, reflects the influence on the Royal Society of British author Francis Bacon, who held that science should be for the “relief of man’s estate.” Though wide-ranging in his interests, Halley displayed a high degree of professional competence that foreshadowed scientific specialization. His wise assessment of Newton’s work and his persistence in guiding it to completion earned for him an important place in the emergence of Western thought.

Edmond Halley predicted the return of a comet in 1758. How is that comet known?

1)		Halley’s Comet
2)		Iseya Seki Comet
3)		Crommelin’s Comet
4)		Encke’s Comet
5)		NULL

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