Edmond Halley

Edmond (atau Edmund) Halley, FRS (disebut ; 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.

Kehidupan peribadi
Halley berkahwin dengan Mary Tooke pada 1682 dan menetap di Islington. Pasangan ini mempunyai tiga anak.

Dinamakan sempena Edmond Halley 

 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)

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Pautan luar

 Edmond Halley Biography (SEDS)
 A Halley Odyssey
 The National Portrait Gallery (London) has several portraits of Halley: Search the collection 
 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

Kelahiran 1656
Kematian 1741