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| adam_text | Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
/
ХІІІ
LIST OF TABLES
/
XVX
PREFACE
/
ХХІ
CONTRIBUTORS
/ XXV
PART I
·
NEWTON AND
HALLEY
1.
Newton,
Halley,
and the System of Patronage
Richards. Westfall
and Gerald Funk I
3
2.
Newton,
Halley,
and the Royal Observatory
Derek Howse I
14
3.
Newton,
Halley,
and the Paris Observatory
Suzanne
Débarbat
I
27
PART II
·
NEWTON
4.
Such an Impertinently Litigious Lady : Hooke s Great Pretending vs.
Newton s
Principia
and Newton s and Halley s Theory of Comets
David Kubrin I
55
5.
Halley
s
Two Essays on Newton s
Principia
I. Bernard Cohen I
91
6.
Newton s Sleeping Argument and the Newtonian
Synthesis of Science and Religion
James E. Force
! 109
7.
Newton as Alchemist and Theologian
B.J.T. Dobbs I
128
xii CONTENTS
PART
III
·
HALLEY
8.
Halley
and the Dimensions of the Solar System
Albert Van
Helden
I
143
9.
Halley,
Surveyor and Military Engineer:
Istria,
1703
Ahn
H.
Cook I
157
10.
Captain
Edmond
Halley, F.R.S.,
Royal Navy, and the Practice of Navigation
D. W. Waters
І
171
11.
The Royal Patrons of
Edmond
Halley,
with Special Reference
to His Maps
Norman J. W. Thrower I
203
12.
Halley
and the Barometer
W. R. Albury I
220
PART IV
·
COMETS
13.
The Ancient History of Halley s Comet
F. Richard Stephenson I
231
14.
Halley, Delisie,
and the Making of the Comet
Simon
Schaffer
I
254
15.
Newton and the Ongoing Teleological Role of Comets
Sara Schechner Genuth I
299
16.
The Comet of
1680-1681
Eric G. Forbes I
312
17.
Edmond Halley:
His
Interestin
Comets
David W. Hughes I
324
18.
The First International
Halley
Watch: Guiding the Worldwide Search for
Comet
Halley,
1755-1759
Craig
В.
Waff/
373
INDEX
/ 413
Illustrations
Frontispiece
Portrait
of
Newton
by
Charles Jervas
/
ii
Frontispiece
Portrait
of
Halley by Thomas
Murray
/
iii
3.1
Title page, Newton s
Principia
(1687),
with autograph dedication from
Halley
toj.
D.
Cassini / 28-29
3.2
Page of calculations by J. D.
Cassini,
on the last page of the
Principia,
presented to him by
Halley
/ 30
3.3
Excerpt from the
1687
Principia
I
31
3.4
Earth measurements from J. Picard s La
Mesure
de la Terre
I
32
3.5
Page
from Cassini s notebook,
15
January
1682,
reporting latitude
determination by
Halley
/ 34
3.6
Letter of
1686
to
Cassini
from
Halley,
autograph
/ 35
3.7
Title page of Newton s
Principia
by the Marquise
du
Chastellet
(1756) / 37
3.8
Return of a comet in
1607,
by
Ismael Bouilliau,
Senior
/ 40
3.9
Comet
Halley
in Picard s notebook of observations made at the Paris
Observatory,
1682 / 41
iv
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
3.10
Comet
Halley
in Cassini s notebook,
1682 / 42
3.11
Comet
Halley
in the notebook of
Cassini
III,
1759 / 44
3.12
Comet
Halley
in a manuscript by Bailly,
1759 / 45
3.13
Comet
Halley
in a manuscript by Messier
/ 46
3.14
Route of Comet
Halley,
presented to King Louis XV by Messier
/ 47
3.15
Portrait of Newton in the Paris Observatory
/ 48
3.16
Effigy of
Halley
in an allegorical painting by Edmond-Louis Dupain
(1882)
of the Transit of Venus in the Paris Observatory
/ 49
9.1
General map of the head of the Adriatic
/ 159
9.2
The harbor at Buccari at the present
/ 160
9.3
The harbor of Trieste, as surveyed by
Halley
I
163
9.4
Entrance to the harbor of Buccari, showing probable sites of batteries
erected by
Halley
I
166
10.1
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, by Francis Place
(1676)
I
173
10.2
Title page of the Practical Navigator by John Seller
(1672) / 181
10.3
An English merchantship by T. Flessier (ca.
1665) / 185
11.1
Halley s southern hemisphere star chart
(1678) / 205
11.2
Cartouche from Halley s Atlantic Chart of Magnetic Variation
(1701) / 211
11.3
Cartouche from Halley s World Chart of Magnetic Variation
(1702) / 212
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
xv
11.4
Inset with poem from Halley s World Chart
/ 213
11.5
Original capstone of Halley s tomb, Royal Observatory, Greenwich I
216
13.1
Plot of deviations of dates of perihelion for Halley s Comet for period
since
700 b.c. / 233
13.2
Computed motion of Halley s Comet in
12 b.c. / 236
13.3
Frequency by decades of Chinese astronomical records (other than solar
eclipses) in the Han-shu I
239
13.4
Accuracy of recording dates of astronomical events in Chinese history
(former Han dynasty)
/ 240
13.5
Apparent daily motion of Halley s Comet around the time of perihelion,
87 b.c. / 246
13.6
Apparent daily motion of Halley s Comet around the time of perihelion,
164 b.c. / 249
13.7
Apparent daily motion of Halley s Comet around the time of perihelion,
240 b.c. / 251
17.1
Copper medallion of Newton with Halley s Comet (ca.
1780) / 326
17.2
Percentages of Halley s professional life spent in various pursuits
/ 327
17.3
Title page of pamphlet warning of calamities expected after appearance
of comet of
1680 / 330
17.4
Apian, woodcut showing the
1531
apparition of Halley s Comet, from
Cometographia
(1668) / 331
Π
.5
Hevelius s ideas as to the origin and orbits of planets, from Cometographia
(1668)/ 333
17.6
Hevelius s drawing of Halley s Comet,
8
September
1682,
from
Annus
Climaeterius
(1685) / 334
xii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
17.7
Dôrffeľs
diagram of the comet of
1680-81 / 336
17.8
Gadbury s prophecies concerning the comet of
1664
I
337
17.9
Flamsteed s diagram of the comet of
1680 / 339
17.10
Page from Halley s notebook with his observations of the comet of
1682 / 344
17.11
Orbit of the comet of
1680,
from Newton s
Principia
(1687) / 348
17.12
Visible apparitions of Halley s Comet in the last two thousand
years
/ 350
17.13
Title page of the original English version of Halley s SynopsL·
(1705) / 354
17.14
Halley s tables of the orbital elements of twenty-four comets
/ 356
17.15
Diagram of the inner portion of the orbit of Halley s Comet in
1682 / 357
17.16
Orbits of the twenty-four comets, in Halley s table from
Le
Monnier s La
Morie
des comètes
(1743) / 358
17.17
Frontispiece of Whiston s Astronomical Lectures
(1715)
I
361
18.1
Thomas Barker s table of likely first-appearance locations of Halley s
Comet
/ 381
18.2
Dirk Klinkenberg s table of expected positions of Halley s Comet,
assuming a perihelion date of
14
February
1757/58 / 382
18.3
Barker s diagram overlaying the orbit of Halley s Comet over the Earth s
orbit
/ 384
18.4
Benjamin Martin s broadside illustrating the orbit of Halley s Comet over
the Earth s orbit
/ 385
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
xvii
18.5
T. Jamard s celestial map
(1757)
representing the orbital paths of the
comets seen in
1531, 1607,
and
1682 / 387
18.6
Philippe Bauche s geographical representation of positions on the Earth
where the comets of
1531, 1607,
and
1682
were seen overhead
/ 388
18.7
Joseph Delisle s table of positions of the comet based on suppositions of
first visibility
/ 398
18.8
Delisle s celestial map
/ 400
Tables
13.1
Astronomical observations recorded in Chinese history ca.
164
and
87
b.c. / 237
13.2
Cometary records from the Shi-chi during the Warring States period and
Ch in
dynasty
/ 242
17.1
Orbital elements of Halley s Comet
/ 359
17.2
Edmond
Halley,
his life and his comets
/ 365
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