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- English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
How To Use Edmund Halley In A Sentence
- Banking has a long history of borrowing ideas from science - astronomer Edmund Halley was constructing mortality tables for the life assurance industry back in the 17th Century.
- The great astronomer Edmund Halley eventually persuaded Newton to put together the results of his work on the laws of motion.