A Short History of Nearly Everything
Who is Edmond Halley?

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Edmond Halley, an early eighteenth-century English astronomer, was also a cartographer, a professor of geometry at Oxford, a captain of a seagoing vessel, a controller of the Royal Mint, and an inventor of the diving bell.
A Short History of Nearly Everything