Question: Who did the person believed to be The "infidel mathematician"  succeed as the AStronomer Royal in Britain?
Sentence (from "Edmond Halley"): Edmond (or Edmund) Halley, FRS (pronounced ; 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 – 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741] ) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of Halley's Comet.
Relevant evidence: No