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Edmond Halley

(Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742)

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• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742, contrib.: La Chronologie des Anciens Royaumes Corrigée: À Laquelle on a Joint une Chronique Abregée, qui Contient ce qui s'est Passé Anciennement en Europe, Jusqu'à la Conquête de la Perse par Alexandre le Grand (in French; Paris: chez G. Martin et al., 1728), by Isaac Newton, trans. by François Granet (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Catalogus stellarum australium; sive, Supplementum catalogi Tychenici, exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum, quae, prope polum Antarcticum sitae, in horizonte Uraniburgico Tychoni inconspicuae fuere, accurato calculo ex distantiis supputatas, & ad annum 1677 completum correctas...Accedit appendicula de rebus quibusdam astronomicis... (Typis T. James, 1679) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Des Apollonius von Perga sieben bücher über kegelschnitte, nebst dem durch Halley wieder hergestellten achten buche. (G. Reimer, 1861), also by of Perga Apollonius and H. Balsam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Die Ältesten Karten der Isogonen, Isoklinen, Isodynamen, 1701, 1721, 1768, 1804, 1825, 1826 (A. Asher, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Die Bücher De sectione rationis (G. Reimer, 1824), also by Wilhelm Adolf Diesterweg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Die bücher des Apollonius von Perga De sectione rationis (G. Reimer, 1824), also by of Perga Apollonius and Wilhelm Adolf Diesterweg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Dioptrica nova, A treatise of dioptricks in two parts : wherein the various effects and appearances of spherick glasses, both convex and concave, single and combined, in telescopes and microscopes, together with their usefulness in many concerns of humane life, are explained / by William Molyneux of Dublin, Esq. ... (London : Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1692), also by William Molyneux (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: The elements of astronomy, physical and geometrical. (Printed for J. Nicholson and sold by J. Morphew, 1715), also by David Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: The elements of that mathematical art commonly called algebra, expounded in two books. (W. Mount and T. Page, 1741), also by John Kersey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: The gentleman's steward and tenants of manors instructed. Containing rational, easy, and familiar rules and tables for finding the value of estates of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, as well on lives as for years absolute, &c. With an enquiry into the nature of the annual disbursements, precariousness of the tenure, and casualties, that estates are charged with, and how they are to be accounted for in the valuation. The tables being founded on Dr. Halley's hypothesis, and calculated by the method laid down by Abr. de Moivre. (J. Senex, 1730), also by John Richards and Abraham de Moivre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Mathematical tables, contrived after a most comprehensive method: viz, a table of logarithms, from 1 to 101000. To which is added (upon the same page) the differences and proportional parts, whereby the logarithm of any number under 10,000,000 may be easily found. Tables of natural sines, tangents, and secants ... Tables of natural versed sines ... With their construction and use. (Printed for R. Mount, and T. Page, 1706), also by Henry Sherwin, Abraham Sharp, John Wallis, and Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Mathematical tables, contrived after a most comprehensive method: viz. a table of logarithms, from 1 to 101000. To which is added (upon the same page) the differences and proportional parts, whereby the logarithm of any number under 10,000,000 may easily be found. Tables of natural sines, tangents, and secants ... Tables of natural and versed sines ... With their construction and use. (Printed for T. Page, W. and F. Mount, 1726), also by Henry Sherwin, Abraham Sharp, John Wallis, and Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Mathematical tables, contrived after the most comprehensive method: viz. a table of logarithms, from 1 to 101000.To which is added (upon the same page) the differences and proportional parts, whereby the logarithm of any number under 10,000,000 may easily be found. Tables of natural sines, tangents, and secants ... Tables of natural versed sines ... With their construction and use. (Printed for R. and W. Mount, and T. Page, 1717), also by Henry Sherwin, William Gardiner, Abraham Sharp, John Wallis, and Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: May it please the King's most excellent Majesty ([London : s.n., 1687]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Menelai Sphaericorum libri III. (sumptibus Academicis, 1758), also by of Alexandria Menelaus and George Costard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Miscellanea curiosa. Being a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age. Together with several discourses read before the Royal society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge. (Printed by J. B. for J. Wale and J. Senex, 1705), also by Royal Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Miscellanea curiosa. Containing a collection of some of the principal phænomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age: being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge. As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society. To which is added, A discourse of the influence of the sun and moon on human bodies, &c. (Printed by W. B. for James and John Knapton, 1723), also by W. Derham, James Hodgson, and Royal Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Miscellanea curiosa. Containing a collection of some of the principal phænomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age: being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge. As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society... (Printed by J.M. for R. Smith, 1708), also by M. de Fontenelle, Richard Mead, W. Derham, James Hodgson, and Royal Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Miscellanea curiosa. Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age; being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge. As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society. (Printed by J.M. for R. Smith, 1708), also by M. de Fontenelle, Richard Mead, W. Derham, James Hodgson, and Royal Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742, ed.: Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age, contrib. by M. de Fontenelle, George Garden, Clopton Havers, Richard Mead, Isaac Newton, Royal Society (Great Britain), and John Wallis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: A plain declaration of the vulgar new heavens flatform serving not onely fore this age, but also fore the future age of 100 years. ([London? : s.n., 1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Sieben bücher über kegelschnitte (Berlin, 1861), also by of Perga Apollonius and H. Balsam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Tables astronomiques de M. Hallei. Première partie. Qui contient auffi les obíervations de la lune, avec les préceptes pour calculer les licux du solcil & de la lune, & d£ecouvrir les erreurs des tables lunaires pendant une période de 223 lunaifons. Ouvrage deftiné principalement à l'usage des navigateurs & au progrès de la phifique. (Chez Durand, [etc.], 1754) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Tables astronomiques de M. Halley, pour les planètes et les comètes, réduites au nouveau stile & méridien de Paris, augmentées de plusieurs tables nouvelles de différens auteurs, pour les sattellites de Jupiter & les étoiles fixes, avec des explications détailées. Et l'histoire de de la comète de 1759. (Chez Durand, 1759) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Universal arithmetick; or, A treatise of arithmetical composition and resolution. To which is added, Dr. Halley's Method of finding the roots of equations arithmetically. (Printed for J. Senex [etc.], 1720), also by Isaac Newton, Mr. Cunn, and Joseph Raphson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: Universal arithmetick : or, A treatise of arithmetical composition and resolution; to which is added Dr. Halley's Method of finding the roots of equations arithmetically (Printed for J. Senex [etc.], 1983), also by Isaac Newton, Mr. Cunn, and Joseph Raphson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: A voyage to the South-sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards ... (Printed for J. Bowyer, 1717), also by Amédée François Frézier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742: A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714 : particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards : their customs and manners, their natural history, mines, commodities, traffick with Europe, &c. (Printed for Christian Bowyer, and sold by John Osborn ..., 1735), also by Amédée François Frézier (page images at HathiTrust)

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