Edmond Halley
Edmond (atau Edmund[1]) Halley, FRS (disebut /ˈɛdmənd ˈhæli/;[2][3] 8 November 1656 – 14 Januari 1741) ialah seorang ahli astronomi, ahli geofizik, ahli matematik, ahli meteorologi, dan ahli fizik Inggeris yang terkenal kerana mengira orbit komet Halley. Beliau merupakan Ahli Astronomi Diraja kedua di Britain, menggantikan John Flamsteed.
Edmond Halley | |
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 Potret oleh Richard Phillips, sebelum 1722 | |
| Kelahiran | 8 November 1656 Haggerston, Middlesex, England |
| Meninggal dunia | 14 January 1741 (umur 85) |
| Dikebumikan | St. Margaret's, Lee, South London |
| Warganegara | Inggeris |
| Pusat pendidikan | The Queen's College, Oxford |
| Pasangan | Mary Tooke |
| Anak-anak | Edmond Halley (d. 1741) Margaret (d. 1713) Richelle (d. 1748) |
| Kerjaya saintifik | |
| Bidang | Astronomi, geofizik, matematik, meteorologi, fizik, kartografi |
| Institusi | Universiti Oxford Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
Kehidupan peribadi
suntingHalley berkahwin dengan Mary Tooke pada 1682 dan menetap di Islington. Pasangan ini mempunyai tiga anak.[4]
Dinamakan sempena Edmond Halley
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- Komet Halley (tempoh orbit (kira-kira) 75 tahun)
- Halley (lunar crater)
- Halley (Martian crater)
- Halley Research Station, Antarctica
- Halley's method, for the numerical solution of equations
- Halley Street, in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia
- Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, OX4 4DQ UK
- Edmund Halley Drive, Reston, Virginia, USA
- Halley Ward, surgical ward at Homerton Hospital East London
- Halley's Mount, Saint Helena (680m high)
- Halley Drive, Hackensack, NJ. Intersects with Comet Way on the campus of Hackensack High School, The home of The Comets
- Rue Edmund Halley, Avignon, France
- The Edmund Halley, A JD Wetherspoon pub in Lee Green London
- Sir Edmond Halley's Restaurant & Freehouse, a pub in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Halley House School, Hackney London (2015)
Rujukan
sunting- ^ Hughes, David W.; Green, Daniel W. E. (January 2007). "Halley's First Name: Edmond or Edmund" (PDF). International Comet Quarterly. Universiti Harvard: 14.
Might we suggest... simply recogniz[ing] both forms, noting that—in the days when Halley lived—there was no rigid 'correct' spelling], and that this particular astronomer seemed to prefer the 'u' over the 'o' in his published works.
- ^ Jones, Daniel; Gimson, Alfred C. (1977) [1917]. Everyman's English Pronunciation Dictionary. Everyman's Reference Library (ed. 14). London: J. M. Dent & Sons. ISBN 0-460-03029-9.
- ^ Kenyon, John S.; Knott, Thomas A. (1953). A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster Inc. ISBN 0-87779-047-7.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). "Edmond Halley". Westminster Abbey. Dicapai pada 3 May 2015.
Bacaan lanjut
sunting- Armitage, Angus (1966). Edmond Halley. London: Nelson.
- Coley, Noel (1986). "Halley and Post-Restoration Science". History Today. 36 (September): 10–16.
- Cook, Alan H. (1998). Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Ronan, Colin A. (1969). Edmond Halley, Genius in Eclipse. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company.
- Seyour, Ian (1996). "Edmond Halley – explorer". History Today. 46 (June): 39–44.
- Sarah Irving (2008). "Natural science and the origins of the British empire (London,1704), 92–93". A collection of voyages and travels. 3 (June): 92–93.
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- Edmond Halley Biography (SEDS)
- A Halley Odyssey
- The National Portrait Gallery (London) has several portraits of Halley: Search the collection Diarkibkan 2006-12-19 di Wayback Machine
- Halley, Edmond, An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693)
- Halley, Edmond, Some Considerations about the Cause of the Universal Deluge (1694)
- Material on Halley's life table for Breslau on the Life & Work of Statisticians site: Halley, Edmond
- Halley, Edmund, Considerations on the Changes of the Latitudes of Some of the Principal Fixed Stars (1718) – Reprinted in R. G. Aitken, Edmund Halley and Stellar Proper Motions (1942)
- Halley, Edmund, A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets (1715) annexed on pages 881 to 905 of volume 2 of The Elements of Astronomy by David Gregory
- Online catalogue of Halley's working papers (part of the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives held at Cambridge University Library)
- Halley, Edmond (1724) "Some considerations about the cause of the universal deluge, laid before the Royal Society, on the 12th of December 1694" and "Some farther thoughts upon the same subject, delivered on the 19th of the same month" Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. Vol. 33 p. 118-125. - digital facsimile from Linda Hall Library