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Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas Hardcover - 1998

by Alan Cook


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Best remembered today for the comet that bears his name, Edmond Halley was one of the great scientists of all time. He discovered the proper motion of stars, made important studies of the moon's motion, and his investigations of the Earth's magnetic field and of tides were unrivalled for
centuries. Now, in this superb full-length biography, Alan Cook paints an unsurpassed portrait of this preeminent figure.
Halley played a crucial role in the Newtonian revolution in the natural sciences. Indeed, Cook reveals that it was Halley who set the question that led Newton to write the Principia, and who edited, paid for, and reviewed it. The author also describes how Halley's prediction of the transit of
Venus led to Captain Cook's voyage to Tahiti and to an accurate calculation of the distance between the Earth and Sun. Perhaps as important, the book examines Halley's personal life, revealing a man who was far from a lab-bound thinker. As a young man, he sailed to St. Helena to chart the unmapped
stars of the Southern Hemisphere. Moreover, Halley knew the leading artists of his age--Wren, Pepys, Handel, Purcell, and Dryden--and he travelled widely throughout Europe, meeting numerous fellow scientists and serving on a variety of diplomatic missions. He even spent a number of adventurous years
as commander of a Royal Naval warship.
Much material about Halley's career has only come to light in recent years. Alan Cook has used this new material to write an illuminating account of the life and times of one of the key scientists of the Enlightenment.

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  • Title Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas
  • Author Alan Cook
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780198500315 / 0198500319
  • Weight 2.67 lbs (1.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.7 in (23.62 x 16.51 x 4.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Halley, Edmond, Astronomers - Great Britain - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97012596
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author


Alan Cook was Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and head of the Physics Department in Cambridge University.
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