How To Use Halley In A Sentence
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The next major figure in the history of transits of Venus was Edmond Halley, of comet fame.
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In 1679 the Royal Society sent Halley to Danzig to arbitrate in a dispute between Hooke and Hevelius.
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Halley treated him cordially and suggested that Harrison consult George Graham, one of London's leading clockmakers.
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1742- English astronomer Edmond Halley died at age 85.
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The meeting reached a deadlock when Williams challenged Halley to have him removed by municipal security guards.
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Nowadays any eclipse is gazetted well in advance, so that amateur and professional observers alike are well prepared, but that was not the case in Halley's era.
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To explain abnormalities in the Earth's magnetic field, Halley proposed that the Earth is hollow, and things haven't been the same since.
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Hello? Nicholas here . May I talk to Halley, please?
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I refer of course to the astronomer member, Professor Heather Couper, who is described as co-author of The Halley’s Comet Pop-Up Book.
ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM
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Halley suggested to him that he might devote his considerable talents to the restoration of the work of the early Greek geometers, such as Euclid and Apollonius of Perga.
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Soon, we finished eating and Halley took Isabella upstairs to change into her pajamas and brush her teeth as I cleaned up the kitchen.
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The first to been seen was in 1639, and the time between transits was later predicted by Edmond Halley (the guy with the comet).
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Portlaw did have claims for a penalty turned down late on when it seemed keeper Wayne English had fouled a Portlaw player in the area but referee Martin Halley waved play on.
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Does the fraudulent misrepresentation bar Mr Halley's claim?
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Edmond Halley , English astronomer and mathematician , renowned for studies of comets , was born in London.
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The vehicle was obstructing the whole road which caused Whalley Old Road to be blocked.
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The value of the Halley family's stake has fallen by half since 1999.
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But still, the whole experience can send me into a tissy and a dither and you don't want Halley in either of those places.
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The inauguration of the new astronomer royal presaged a drastic reversal of fortune for John Harrison, whom Halley had always admired.
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Astronomers have in general acquiesced in the conjecture of Dr. Halley, that the comets of 1532, and 1661 are one and the same comet, from the similarity of the elements of their orbits, and were therefore induced to expect its return to its perihelium 1789.
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En route to Halley, on Vega program each dropped a Venera-style probe (of which Vega 1's partially failed) and released a balloon-supported aerobot into the upper atmosphere.
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He was a very prickly person and took criticism badly, it took all Halley's skills in diplomacy to nurse the Principia to publication.
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Did you know that Burnley and Whalley were once hotbeds of speedway?
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The author was the astronomer Edmond Halley, who is far better known today for having a famous comet named after him.
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Mr Sterry, 48, came to Whalley in 1994 as chaplain to the Bishop of Blackburn before becoming a vicar and warden of Whalley Abbey in 1997.
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He calculated to within a month the return in 1759 of Halley's comet to its perihelion (closest point to the Sun).
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In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.
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They looked upon religious correctitude as being of the utmost importance, and Halley's careful demeanor during the 1690s had the end result that he was successful in obtaining appointment to the Savilian Chair of Geometry in 1704.
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It was the time when Halley's comet paid earthlings a visit.
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Eighteen-year-old Jennie Whalley was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes while sitting in a car parked in a garage.
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It seems to me revealing that Mr Halley and Mr Gibbins should describe him as if he were one and knew what he was doing.
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Various factors counted against Halley when he was an applicant in 1691 for the Savilian astronomy professorship at Oxford University.
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In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft (at a distance of 600 kilometres from Halley).
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A flying mountain, roughly the shape - and size - of the island of Manhattan was turning on a cosmic spit every fifty-three hours; as the heat of the Sun seeped through the insulating crust, the vaporizing gases were making Halley's Comet behave like a leaking steam-boiler.
2061 Odyssey Three
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This assemblage is equivalent to the kochaspid ‘zonule’ of Palmer and Halley.
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The comet is visible to the naked eye, and in the 1700s astronomer Edmond Halley was the first to correctly predict its return, calculating that the comet comes back every 76 years.
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As the months rolled on, more and more aspiring riders turned up, so to control numbers the Whalley Amateur Dirt-Track Club was formed and members had to pay both annual subscriptions and to ride the track.
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The profile of the temporary bund would slope steeply away from viewpoints on Whalley Lane and be beyond the present high bund at the back of the farmhouse.
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Newton favoured comets having parabolic orbits, but Halley believed that elliptical orbits might exist.
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the reappearance of Halley's comet
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His father still could afford a good education for his son and Halley was tutored privately at home before being sent to St Paul's School.
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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.
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The great astronomer Edmund Halley eventually persuaded Newton to put together the results of his work on the laws of motion.
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Caught under by the breeze, the awnings of the fore-deck bellied upwards and collapsed slowly, and above their heavy flapping the gray stuff of Captain Whalley's roomy coat fluttered incessantly around his arms and trunk.
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Sir Elton's signature was witnessed by Mr Halley.
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In 1705 Halley showed that the comet, which is now called after him, moved in an elliptical orbit round the sun.
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Those days are gone, my friend, but just like Halley's Comet will make their comeback.
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After a few more attempts at conversation, he got angry and started muttering ‘Posh Whalley Range lady… la-di-da Moss Side lady’.
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He proved instrumental in providing a centre of basketball excellence based at Whalley Range High School.
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During his own tenure as astronomer royal, from 1720 to 1742, Halley studiously tracked the moon.
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In 1910, many people panicked when astronomers revealed Earth would pass through the cyanogen-rich tail of Comet Halley.
Green Comet Approaches Earth
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Seventeen-year-old brainbox Thomas, who attends St Bede's College in Whalley Range, has notched up an incredible FIVE A grades in maths, further maths, physics, chemistry and general studies.
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In so doing, they have, as Janet Halley has observed, "treat [ed] sodomy as a metonym for homosexual personhood," 26 thereby attempting to criminalize homosexuality itself.
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I once collaborated with Whalley on a book about the Eden Project and can vouch for his attention to detail.
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Coleman saw the same qualities in him that had caught Whalley's eye in the first place and offered him a two-year deal after a handful of friendlies.
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That appearance of Halley's comet was immortalized in the Bayeux tapestry.
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His argument may have turned out indecisively, but Halley evidently believed that scientific data were relevant to theological questions.
