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Edmond Halley (1656–1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and geophysicist who served as the second Astronomer Royal from 1720 until his death. In 1705 he published A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, in which he calculated the orbits of two dozen comets and predicted that sightings in...
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Nevil Maskelyne was the fifth British Astronomer Royal, serving from 1765 to 1811. He significantly advanced maritime navigation by developing the lunar distance method for determining longitude at sea. To support this method, he published the first Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris in 176...
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