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Cosmology --- Halley, Edmond

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Comets --- Halley, Edmond, - 1656-1742 --- Halley's comet --- Comets. --- Halley, Edmond, --- Halley's comet.

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Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the return of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery would be enough to make the career of any scientist, Halley's massive contributions to the fields of astronomy, navigation, geophysics, mathematics, engineering, and actuarial science as a young man and eventually as Astronomer Royal are mostly overlooked. The book is a revelatory and deeply researched biography of a man whose defining achievement isn't even the half of it. A jack-of-all-trades when it came to scientific reasoning, an all-around academic and workaholic who couldn't leave well enough alone, Halley was amazingly productive and prolific. He was behind some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in human history : it was Halley who was the first to accurately plot the stars of the southern hemisphere. He published Isaac Newton's Principia, arguably the most important scientific text ever written; translated the works of ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius; captained the ship Paramore on a scientific expedition to plot the Earth's magnetic fields; was the first to calculate mortality annuities, creating the foundation for actuarial science; made improvements to the diving bell; surveyed the tides of the English Channel; and began the movement to accurately measure the distance between the Earth and Sun, unlocking the key to determining the distances to the nearest stars. In this incisive and perceptive biography, author David K. Love reveals the boundless mind and endless curiosity of Edmond Halley firmly cementing the legacy of the second Astronomer Royal among the first-rate scientists of his time.

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Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity.  The work comprised eight books, four of which have come down to us in their original Greek and three in Arabic.  By the time the Arabic translations were produced, the eighth book had already been lost. In 1710, Edmond Halley, then Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, produced an edition of the Greek text of the Conics of Books I-IV, a translation into Latin from the Arabic versions of Books V-VII, and a reconstruction of Book VIII.   Motivated by such questions as what role did Halley's reconstruction play in the mathematical world of the late 17th and early 18th century? and what did Halley see himself learning from engaging with mathematicians such as Apollonius?, Michael Fried’s work provides the first complete English translation of Halley’s reconstruction of Book VIII with supplementary notes on the text.  The volume also contains an introduction discussing aspects of Apollonius’s Conics, an investigation of Edmond Halley's understanding of the nature of his venture into ancient mathematics, and appendices giving brief accounts of Apollonius’s approach to conic sections and his mathematical techniques. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in the history of ancient Greek mathematics and mathematics in the early modern period. .

Apollonius, of Perga. K ̄onika. --- Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742. --- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800. --- Mathematics, Greek. --- Mathematics, Greek --- Mathematics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Computer Science --- Mathematics - General --- Conic sections. --- Greek mathematics --- Apollonius, --- Halley, Edmond, --- Halley, Edmund, --- Haley, Edmúnd, --- Halley, --- Halley, E. --- Halleius, Edmundus, --- Hallei, --- Halley, Edmundus, --- Hallai, Edmond, --- Southern Tycho, --- Mathematics. --- Geometry. --- History. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Curves, Plane --- Geometry, Plane --- Ellipse --- Geometry, Analytic --- Parabola --- Geometry --- Euclid's Elements --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Math --- Science --- Halley, Edmond. --- Conica. --- Geschichte 200 v.Chr. --- Griechenland (Altertum)