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• cur | prev 2025 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (4,237 bytes) (−85) m . . (rv the sock, again, under yet another name; the affair is in the article already and is put there without the spelling) (current)
• cur | prev 2025 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (4,322 bytes) (+27) . . (HE TOOK FLAMSTEEDS BOOK OFF HIM AND GOT A COMET NAMED AFTER HIM FOR IT)
• cur | prev 2024 a reader (talk | contribs) . . (4,295 bytes) (+45) m . . (talk: did he ever see the comet. no. that is the article)
• cur | prev 2016 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (4,250 bytes) (+140) . . (→ the comet is named for the only man in two thousand years who did not see it discovered. see Stiglers law of eponymy, which was not available to him)
• cur | prev 1869 V. Reeve (talk | contribs) . . (4,110 bytes) (+50) m . . (→ the Athenaeum has debated whether a prediction fulfilled after death counts to the predictor, and adjourned. the question stands over)
• cur | prev 1843 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (4,060 bytes) (+70) m . . (→ note: the man was right about the compass, right about the comet and wrong about the inside, and the ratio is better than most of us manage)
• cur | prev 1774 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (3,990 bytes) (−80) . . (rv the cavity; weighed the earth against a hill in Perthshire and it is far too heavy to be hollow. see The Schiehallion experiment. thirty-two years too late to be argued with)
• cur | prev 1769 an expedition (talk | contribs) . . (4,070 bytes) (+160) . . (→ timed the transit as instructed, from several continents. 150,839,000 km, within a per cent, on a method left in a drawer for fifty-three years)
• cur | prev 1759 N. de Lacaille (talk | contribs) . . (3,910 bytes) (+90) . . (→ named it for him, he having been dead seventeen years and never having claimed it. the Chinese have it from 240 BC and are not consulted)
• cur | prev 1758 J. Palitzsch (talk | contribs) . . (3,820 bytes) (+200) . . (→ it is back. Christmas night, from a farm in Saxony, inside the year he named, sixteen years after he could be told of it. the page may be considered settled)
• cur | prev 1742 J. Bradley (talk | contribs) . . (3,620 bytes) (+60) m . . (→ succeeded him. he had asked for a glass of wine, the cordials having tired him, and did not require a second)
• cur | prev 1720 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (3,560 bytes) (+150) . . (→ took Greenwich and found it empty, the instruments having been the late Astronomer Royal's own property and removed by his widow. beginning again at sixty-three)
• cur | prev 1718 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (3,410 bytes) (+260) . . (→ Sirius, Arcturus and Aldebaran are not where Ptolemy left them. the fixed stars are not fixed and have not been for sixteen hundred years)
• cur | prev 1716 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (3,150 bytes) (+340) . . (→ the distance to the sun, from the transit of Venus, timed from stations far apart. the transits are in 1761 and 1769 and this note is addressed to whoever is alive then)
• cur | prev 1716 J. Flamsteed (talk | contribs) . . (2,810 bytes) (−300) . . (rm three hundred copies of the above, by fire, in my own grounds. the sheets were mine to burn as the observations were mine to withhold, and I read the preface twice before it went on)
• cur | prev 1712 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (3,110 bytes) (+340) . . (→ printed the catalogue. the observations had sat thirty-six years while the man who made them declined to be satisfied with them, and a thing unpublished is a thing nobody has. the preface is mine and I did not sign it)
• cur | prev 1705 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (2,770 bytes) (+460) . . (→ the comets of 1531, 1607 and 1682 are one comet. it returns about 1758 and I shall not be here. candid posterity is asked to remember whose it was)
• cur | prev 1701 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (2,310 bytes) (+380) . . (→ drew lines through the places where the variation is equal, which nobody had done, and printed the chart. the double line through Bermuda is where the needle tells the truth)
• cur | prev 1692 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (1,930 bytes) (+420) . . (→ the compass drifts, so something inside is turning at its own rate. proposed shells, with a space between, lit and possibly occupied. see Hollow Earth)
• cur | prev 1687 I. Newton (talk | contribs) . . (1,510 bytes) (+90) m . . (→ the density of the moon, nine fifths of the earth's. this is in Book III and is the only figure in the volume I would now withdraw)
• cur | prev 1687 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (1,420 bytes) (+480) . . (→ the Principia, edited, corrected and paid for by me, the Society having spent the money on a history of fishes. I was afterwards paid in copies of the fishes)
• cur | prev 1684 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (940 bytes) (+300) . . (→ asked Isaac Newton what curve an inverse square gives. he said an ellipse, said he had done it, and could not find the paper. I have asked him to do it again)
• cur | prev 1676 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (640 bytes) (+640) . . (created page; sailed to St Helena, it being the southernmost thing we own, and catalogued 341 stars nobody in England had seen. it rained)

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