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Edmond Halley Research Paper

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Edmond Halley was born on November 8, 1656 in Haggerston, London in United Kingdom he was an english scientist he discovered a comet later named after him Halley's Comet. Even though he was a scientist he was remembered as an astronomer. Halley died on January 14, 1742 in Greenwich United Kingdom at age 87. He was the eldest son. Halley’s father Edmund Humphrey Halley was a well known soapmaker and property owner and his mother Anna Robinson. His mother died in 1672 and then his father was murdered in 1684. When Halley was a kid he was tutored at home till he entered St. Paul's School where he excelled in astronomy and mathematics. In 1673 at age 17 he entered Queen's college in Oxford. Then he married Mary Tooke in 1682 and then had three

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