| Authorised form of name | Halley; Edmond (1656 - 1742); astronomer |
| Other forms of name | Edmund |
| Dates | 1656 - 1742 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Haggerston, St Leonard's parish, Shoreditch, London, England, Europe |
| Date of birth | 8 November 1656 |
| Place of death | Greenwich, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe |
| Date of death | 14 January 1742 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Lee churchyard, near Greenwich, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe (20 January 1742) |
| Occupation | Astronomer |
| Research field | Astronomy |
| Geophysics |
| Activity | Education:
St Paul's School, London; Queen's College, Oxford (MA by royal mandate 1678; DCL 1710)
Career:
Sailed for St Helena to study the stars of the southern hemisphere (1676-1678); sent to Danzig by the Royal Society where he studied the observations of Johannes Hevelius (FRS 1664) (1679); travelled in France and Italy with Robert Nelson (FRS 1680) (1680-1681); encouraged and assisted Isaac Newton (FRS 1672) in writing his 'Principia Mathematica' and paid for its printing (1687); was refused the Savilian chair of Astronomy, partly through the enmity of John Flamsteed (FRS 1677) (1691); Comptroller of the Mint at Chester (1696-1698); obtained command of the war sloop 'Paramour Pink' in order to study the variation of the compass (1698-1700); surveyed the tides and coasts of the British Isles (1701-1702); inspected the harbours of the Adriatic at the request of the Emperor Leopold and helped the imperial engineers in the fortification of the harbour at Trieste; Savilian Professor of Geometry (1703-1742); leading member of the committee to prepare Flamsteed's observations for the press; Hydrographer to Queen Anne; Astronomer Royal (1720); quarrelled with Newton over the non-publication of his observations (1727)
Memberships:
Foreign Member, Academie Royale des Sciences (1729) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/11/1678 |
| Age at election | 22 |
| Proposer | Sir Jonas Moore |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Secretary 1713-1721; Vice-President 1729- , 1741-; Council 1683-1684; Clerk 1686-1699 ; Editor of the 'Philosophical Transactions': 1686-1693; 1714-1720 |
| Other Royal Society activity | Resigned his Fellowship for the period he was a Clerk to the Royal Society (1685-1698) |
| Relationships | Parents: Edmond Halley and Anne Halley
Married: Mary Tooke |
| Published works | RCN: 25230
RCN: R69331
RCN: R65028
RCN: R69339
RCN: 49113
RCN: 42833
RCN: 42830
RCN: 42829 |
| General context | Through influential connections at court, Halley could secure free passage on one of the East India Company's ships to St Helena to make observations of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere. Here, he was the first to record a complete transit of Mercury. Halley is closely connected to Sir Isaac Newton (FRS 1672), especially his research in mathematics, and he was instrumental in publishing Newton's 'Principia'. Halley wrote much on astronomy and magnetism throughout his life and through his role as naval captain, he contributed to sea charts and meteorological observations. His 'Greenwich Observations' reportedly did not meet the standards set by his predecessor John Flamsteed (FRS 1677), with whom he also continuously quarrelled throughout his life. |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Hunter; Foster; ODNB
References:
T E Allibone, 'The Diaries of John Byrom, MA, FRS, and their Relation to the Pre-history of the Royal Society Club' in NR 1965 vol 20 pp 162-183
Sir John Craig, 'The Royal Society and the Royal Mint' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 156-167
Sir Harold Spencer Jones, 'Halley as an Astronomer' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 175-192
Sir Gavin de Beer and Max H Hey, 'The First Ascent of Mont Blanc' in NR 1954-55 vol 11 pp 236-255
Sir Edward Bullard and Colin A Ronan, 'The Exhibition to Commemorate Edmond Halley, 1656-1742' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 166-167
S Chapman, 'Edmond Halley, FRS, 1656-1742' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 168-174, plate
Margaret Deacon, 'Founders of Marine Science in Britain: the Work of the Early Fellows of the Royal Society' in NR 1965 vol 20 pp 28-50
H E Bell, 'The Savilian Professors' Houses and Halley's Observatory at Oxford' in NR 1961 vol 16 pp 179-186
E N da C Andrade, 'The Birth and Early Days of the Philosophical Transactions' in NR 1965 vol 20 pp 9-27
A N L Munby, 'The Distribution of the First Edition of Newton's Principia' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 28-39
A D Atkinson, 'The Royal Society and English Vocabulary' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 40-43
C S S, 'The Society's Library' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 21-27
H G Lyons, 'Two Hundred Years Ago: 1739' in NR 1939 vol 2 pp 34-42
M Greenwood, 'The First Life Table' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 70-72
A Rupert Hall, 'A Practical Natural Philosopher', review of Alan Cook, Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 369-371
Harold B Carter, 'The Royal Society and the Voyage of HMS Endeavour 1768-71' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 245-260
Sir Alan Cook, 'An Astronomical Patriarch', review of Anna Cassini, Gio: Domenico Cassini Uno scienzato del Seicento in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 335-337
Sir Alan Cook, 'Greenwich Comes of Age', review of Eric G Forbes, Lesley Murdin and Frances Willmoth, The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal. Volume Two, 1682-1703 in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 191-193
Sir Alan Cook, 'In This Issue' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 159-160, plate
Sir Alan Cook, 'Ladies in the Scientific Revolution' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 1-12
Sir Alan Cook, 'More Frequent Issues' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 1-2
Sir Alan Cook, 'Seeds of the Scientific Revolution', review of Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages, Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts and Benedino Gemelli, Aspetti dell'Atomismo classico nella Filosofia di Francis Bacon e nel Seicento, Accademia toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria", 'Studi' CLII in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 327-334
G E Fogg, 'The Royal Society and the Antarctic' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 85-98
Sir Alan Cook, 'Our Foreign Correspondence' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 179-182
Walter Munk, 'Solving the Tidal Problem', review of David E Cartwright, Tides: A Scientific History in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 116-119
Allan Chapman, 'Edmond Halley's Use of Historical Evidence in the Advancement of Science' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 167-191, plate
Brebis Bleaney, 'The Physical Sciences in Oxford, 1918-1939 and Earlier' in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 247-261
D T Whiteside, 'The Evolution of the Principia from 1665 to 1686' in NR 1988 vol 42 p 11
D T Whiteside, 'The Prehistory of the Principia from 1664 to 1686' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 11-61
D W Hughes, 'The Principia and Comets' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 53-74
David J Thomas, 'Joseph Raphson, FRS' in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 151-167
G J Whitrow, 'Newton's Role in the History of Mathematics' in NR 1989 vol 43 pp 71-92
Sir Alan Cook, 'Edmond Halley and Newton's Principia' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 129-138
Sir Alan Cook, 'Halley the Londoner' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 163-177
A Rupert Hall, 'Newton and His Editors. The Wilkins Lecture, 1973' in NR 1974-5 vol 29 pp 29-52, plate
Asit K Biswas, 'Edmond Halley, FRS, Hydrologist Extraordinary' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 47-57
Charles H Cotter, 'Captain Edmond Halley RN, FRS' in NR 1981-82 vol 36 pp 61-77
Charles H Cotter, 'The Mariner's Sextant and the Royal Society' in NR 1978-9 vol 33 pp 23-36
Edward H Cohen and John S Ross, 'The Commonplace Book of Edmond Halley' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 1-40
Geoffrey Fryer, 'John Fryer, FRS and His Scientific Observations, Made Chiefly in India and Persia Between 1672 and 1682' in NR 1978-9 vol 33 pp 175-206
P D Lawrence and A G Molland, 'David Gregory's Inaugural Lecture at Oxford' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 143-178
Simon Schaffer, 'Halley's Atheism and the End of the World' in NR 1977-8 vol 32 pp 17-40
Sir Richard Woolley, 'Captain Cook and the Transit of Venus of 1769' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 19-32
T E Allibone, 'Edmond Halley and the Clubs of the Royal Society' in NR 1973-4 vol 28 pp 195-205
P Fontes da Costa, 'The Culture of Curiosity at The Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century', NR 2002 vo l56 pp 147-166
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305
A Cook, '1703 and other anniversaries' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 1-2
N J W Thrower, 'Samuel Pepys FRS (1633-1733) and The Royal Society' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 3-13
A Cook, 'The end of the affair. The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, vol 3 (1703-1719) by E G Forbes, L Murdin and F Willmoth' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 113-116
Allan Chapman 'Edmond Halley: the man behind the comet' in Science and Public Affairs Autumn 1994 pp24-27
D E Cartwright, 'The Tonkin tides revisited' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 135-142
Sir Alan Cook FRS, 'Continental connections' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 267-268
J H Appleby, 'The founding of St Petersburg in the context of the Royal Society's relationship with Russia' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 273-284
A Cook, 'Rome and the Royal Society, 1660-1740' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 3-19
L Jardine, 'The 2003 Wilkins Lecture: Dr Wilkins's boy wonders' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 107-129
T Quinn, 'The Palace of Westminster frescoes, Kelvin's secretary and the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine', in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 135-137
P Fara, 'Edmond Halley's last portrait' in NR 2006 vol 60 pp 199-201
Notes:
DSB gives birth and death dates as ? 29 October 1656 and 14 January 1743., Old Style. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/71400665 |
| Royal Society code | NA8423 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/001863 | Halley, Edmond | nd |
| M/093 | Halley, Edmond | 1744 |
| CLP/21/24 | Paper, 'An algebraic problem in Latin' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/21/9 | Paper, Criticism of an 'unhappy geometrician' by Edmond Halley | 9 June 1686 |
| EL/P2/13 | Method for making mortar at Madras in eastern India from Isaac Pyke, Governor of St Helena, to Edmond Halley | 1731 |
| EL/I1/136 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/7/128 | Theory of finding longitude at sea by Edmond Halley | nd |
| MM/5/41 | Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton | 13 February 1697 |
| RBO/7/129 | 'Concerning an Instrument to be had at all places and times for exact observation' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/17/73 | Edmond Halley's 'account of the progress he made in observing the Moon's Motion whereby he proposes to be able to find the Longitude at Sea within a Degree or 20 Leagues' | 1731 |
| EL/I1/147 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | nd |
| EL/I1/135 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1690 |
| EL/I1/102 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/I1/113 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| RBO/7/130 | 'Concerning long Telescopes casing Reflected Beams' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/7/127 | 'A discourse of an Engine to raise Earth up with two men' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/11/48 | 'Doctor Halley of a Valve near the Drum of the Ear' | 1721 |
| EL/I1/108 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/7/65 | 'A Letter from Mr Halley of June 7 1697 concerning the Torricellian Experiment tryed on the Top of Snowdon Hill and the Success of it' | nd |
| EL/H3/51 | Letter from Edmond Halley | 25 November 1696 |
| RBO/7/125 | 'Concerning the force of Gunpowder' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| EL/R1/49 | N Rooke to Edmond Halley | 8 February 1694 |
| RBO/7/124 | 'Concerning finding the Longitude of places' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| MM/5/44 | Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Thomas Molyneux | 21 July 1697 |
| EL/I1/117 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| IM/001866 | Halley, Edmond | 2001 |
| MM/5/46 | Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Thomas Molyneux | 25 August 1697 |
| EL/H3/47 | Edmond Halley to Johannes Weichard Valvasori [Valvasor] | nd |
| EL/I1/123 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| EL/N1/56 | Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley | 14 July 1686 |
| RBO/7/30 | 'An account of the circulation of the Watery vapours of the Sea and the Cause of Springs' by Edmond Halley | 25 April 1688 |
| EL/I1/115 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| EL/I1/120 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| CLP/8ii/6/1 | Manuscript, 'Construction of the famous annular eclipse of the sun at London March 21 1664' by Joseph Smith to Edmond Halley | 28 March 1728 |
| EL/H3/62 | Robert Hooke to Edmond Halley | 1 March 1681 |
| RBO/7/126 | 'Concerning the Motion of light' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| MM/5/43 | Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton | 30 December 1697 |
| RBO/7/36 | Copy of a letter from John Wallis to Edmond Halley dated 26 April 1687 at Oxford | 1687 |
| RBO/7/116 | 'Some Observations on the Motion of the Sun' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/8/19 | 'Concerning Evacuating Water by pressure' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| CLP/21/41 | Paper, 'Protecting the drum of the ear under water' by Edmond Halley | 1721 |
| RBO/8/32 | 'Concerning the Refractions of Liquors' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/9/21 | 'An Estimate of the quantity of vapours raised out of the Sea by the warmth of the sun derived from an Experiment shown before the Royal Society' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/9/19 | 'An Experiment of the force of the Magnetic Needle, and its Variation' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/7/20 | 'Mr Edmond Halley's Paper considering the first position of the Poles of the Earth' | 1 February 1688 |
| RBO/9/15 | 'Concerning the making of Prism to transmitt only the Red Light' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/11/28 | 'Of the Infinity of the System of the World' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| MM/5/40 | Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester Mint, to Isaac Newton | 28 November 1696 |
| RBO/13/22 | Lunar and solar eclipses witnessed at Vera Cruz by Joseph Harris, communicated by Edmond Halley | 1727 |
| CLP/21/35 | Paper, 'Of water pressure of a body in a stream' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| RBO/11/102 | 'Account of the Appearance of Mercury passing over the Suns disk on the 29th of October 1723 determining the mean motion and fixing the nodes of that Planets Orb' by Edmond Halley | 1725 |
| CLP/21/30 | Paper, 'Discussing Pliny's natural history' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| RBO/13/71 | Observations of the motion of fixed stars from a letter from the Reverend Mr James Bradley Savllian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford to Edmond Halley | 1728 |
| RBO/13/9 | 'Some further Remarks on P Souciet's Dissertation against Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology in a letter to Dr Jurin by Dr Halley' | 1727 |
| RBO/11/65 | Observations of the solar eclipse by Edmond Halley | 27 November 1722 |
| RBO/6/104 | 'Experiment of the Comparative weight of Quicksilver to water' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/18/6 | 'Observations of Latitudes and variation taken on board the Hartford in her passage from Java-head to St Helena in 1731' by Edmond Halley | 1732 |
| CLP/21/12 | Paper, 'A paper concerns trying the force of the magnet at several distances' by Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/S2/61 | William Saunderson, dated at Bombay, to Edmond Halley | 12 September 1725 |
| RBO/9/14 | 'A Discourse of the Exactness of the ancient Geography in comparison with that of the modern' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| CLP/21/47 | Paper, 'The refraction of liquors' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| P/0060 | Portrait of Halley, Edmond | 1736 |
| RBO/9/13 | 'An abstract account of a Lad in Saxony that swallowed a Knife etc' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| RBO/7/24 | 'Mr Halley about a Method for walking under Water' | 6 March 1689 |
| RBO/9/16 | 'A Discourse concerning a method to keep great ships out at Sea in winter time without damage' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| EL/W4/18 | Thomas Wright to Edmond Halley | 28 October 1736 |
| CLP/21/10 | Paper, Account of two of Robert Boyle's books on nature by Edmund Halley | 1686 |
| CLP/21/31 | Paper, 'Concerning sound under water and an instrument to enable there to be light under water' by Edmond Halley | 1691 |
| RBO/9/17 | 'A Description of an Instrument to observe the celestial motion etc by reflexion thro' a Telescope without elevating the Telescope towards the object' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| CLP/21/18 | Paper, 'A thermometer in which the degree of heat may be measured by the amount of vapour given by a liquid' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| MM/17/76 | Letter from Eugene F Macpike to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 25 October 1897 |
| RBO/8/33 | 'A discourse tending to Explicate the Modus of the using of Vapours out of water' by Edmond Halley | 1698 |
| RBO/9/18 | 'A Paper concerning Trying the force of the magnet at Several distances' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| CLP/21 | Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers | 1666-1720 |
| MM/20/33 | Letter from Johann Friedrich Weidler to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society | 2 February 1738 |
| RBO/11/29 | 'A Continuation of this last Subject and of the number of the fixt Stars etc ' by Edmond Halley | 1720 |
| CLP/21/16 | Tables, 'Tables showing the conjunction of the first satellite with Jupiter' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/21/36 | Paper, 'Of the rate of water flow in open vessels' by Edmond Halley | 1692 |
| RBO/7/34 | Copy of a letter from John Wallis to Edmond Halley concerning the resistance of the air to projectiles dated 4 March 1687 at Oxford | 9 March 1687 |
| CLP/21/4 | Paper, 'Experiment to show the comparative weight of mercury to water' by Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| CLP/21/19 | Paper, 'Of the position of the poles of the Earth' by Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| CLP/21/43 | Paper, 'A paper of the cycloid' by Edmond Halley | 1695 |
| IM/001865 | Halley, Edmond | 2001 |
| CLP/21/1 | Paper, 'The occultation of Mars by the Moon observed at Oxford on 21 August 1676' by Edmond Halley | 21 August 1676 |
| CLP/21/20 | Paper, 'Expansion of mercury and of water by heat' by Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| MM/5/42 | Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Isaac Newton | 2 August 1697 |
| CLP/21/22 | Paper, 'Discourse concerning thermometers and the rarefaction of liquids' by Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| IM/005899 | Halley, Edmond | nd |
| RBO/18/1 | 'An account of a Comet in a Letter to Doctor Halley from Mr John Dove on board the Monmouth in Table Bay | 1732 |
| MM/5/45 | Letter from Edmond Halley, Chester, to Thomas Molyneux | 31 July 1697 |
| IM/001861 | Halley, Edmond | nd |
| IM/004321 | Halley, Edmond | September 2004 |
| CLP/1/20/3 | Diagram, on gunnery by [Edmond Halley?] | [1685] |
| EL/I1/126 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| CLP/21/53 | Paper, 'A report on [Zuane] Alberghetti's tables on gunnery' by Edmond Halley | 30 March 1701 |
| CLP/1/21/2 | Diagram, the Florentine problem by David Gregory in his letter to Edmond Halley | 1693 |
| CLP/6/47 | Paper, regarding experiments with barometers and observations of the weather in 1686 by [John] Caswell | [1686] |
| CLP/8i/65 | Paper, observations of Jupiter's satellites communicated by James Pound to Edmond Halley | 9 July 1714 |
| EL/A/47 | Letter, 'Of the lampyris or Cicindela volans' by Benjamin Allen to Mr Smith, a bookseller at The Prince's Arms in St Pauls Churchyard, for Edmond Halley | 3 July 1665 |
| CLP/21/13 | Paper, 'Of [Isaac] Newton's Principia' by Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| CLP/21/11 | Paper, 'Details of a book on a voyage to Siam [Thailand] by [Chevalier de] Chaumont' by Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| CLP/21/38 | Paper, 'Description of the diving bell' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/21/32 | Paper, 'How to measure the way of the ship through the water' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/21/52 | Paper, 'Signor [Zuane] Alberghetti's tables for shooting bombs from a long gun' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| CLP/21/49 | Paper, 'A Discourse concerning a method to keep great ships out at Sea in winter time without damage' by Edmond Halley | [1692] |
| CLP/21/3 | Paper, 'The transit of Mercury observed at St Helena in 1677' by Edmond Halley | 28 October 1677 |
| CLP/21/37 | Paper, 'Of magnetic variations' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/1/20/5 | Diagram, on gunnery by [Edmond Halley?] | [1685] |
| CLP/1/20/6 | Diagram, on gunnery by [Edmond Halley?] | [1685] |
| CLP/21/7 | Paper, 'An historical account of trade winds and monsoons observable in the seas between and near the Tropicks ...' by Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| CLP/21/51 | Paper, 'An instrument to observe the motions of the heaven through a telescope by reflection and concerning a lad who swallowed a knife' by Edmond Halley | [1691] |
| CLP/21/48 | Paper, 'A prism to transmit only the red light' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/1/2/1 | Manuscript, 'The mystical square of 6' from [Mr St Clare?] to Edmund Halley | [17th century] |
| CLP/21/42 | Paper, 'Of the number of roots in certain equations' by Edmond Halley | 1695 |
| CLP/8ii/6 | Paper, 'Construction of the famous annular eclipse of the sun at London March 21 1664' by Joseph Smith to Edmond Halley | 28 March 1728 |
| CLP/21/2 | Paper, 'Method of determining Aphelia, eccentricities of planetary orbits' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/21/40 | Paper, 'Of working in the diving bell' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/10i/24 | Paper, account of Halley's catalogue of plants found in North Wales by Dr [Tancred?] Robinson | [1685] |
| CLP/1/20/4 | Diagram, on gunnery by [Edmond Halley?] | [1685] |
| CLP/1/20/2 | Diagram, on gunnery by Edmond Halley | [1685] |
| CLP/21/21 | Paper, 'Observation of an eclipse of the moon on 25 April 1688 at Moscow in Russia' by Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| CLP/21/28 | Paper, 'To walk under water' by Edmond Halley | 1689 |
| CLP/21/33 | Paper, 'Of the velocity and force of moving bodies in air and water' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/21/34 | Paper, 'Of the height of fountains' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/21/29 | Paper, 'A proposition of Generall Use in the art of Gunnery showing the Rule of Laying a Mortar to pass in order to strike any Object above or below the Horizon' by Edmond Halley | [1695] |
| CLP/21/25 | Paper, 'Account of the measure of the thickness of gold upon gilt wire' by Edmond Halley | 1689 |
| CLP/21/50 | Paper, 'An Estimate of the quantity of vapours raised out of the Sea by the warmth of the sun derived from an Experiment shown before the Royal Society' by Edmond Halley | [1687] |
| CLP/21/23 | Paper, 'Concerning the contraction of the thermometer showing the degrees of heat and cold by the dilation and contraction of the air' by Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| CLP/21/44 | Paper, 'Account of the Ancient State of the city of Palmyra with short remarks upon the Inscriptions found there' by Edmond Halley | 1695 |
| CLP/21/6 | Paper, Account of Mr Mariotte's book 'Du mouvement des Eaux [Of the movement of water]' by Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| CLP/21/26 | Paper, 'Discourse to prove when and where Julius Caesar came to Britain' by Edmond Halley | 1689 |
| CLP/6/47/1 | Manuscripts, experiments with barometers and observations of the weather in 1686 by Mr Caswell | [1686] |
| CLP/8i/66 | Paper, lunar eclipse observed at Wanstead on 30 October 1715 by James Pound | 1715 |
| CLP/6/47/2 | Table, barometric readings of some hills in England and Wales by Mr Caswell | [1686] |
| CLP/8ii/5 | Paper, observations at Vera Cruz of a partial eclipse of the sun on 11 March 1727 by Joseph Harris | 1728 |
| CLP/21/8 | Paper, 'Description of an invention whereby the divisions of the barometer may be enlarged in any given proportion produced before the Royal Societie by Robert Hooke' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/8i/77 | Paper, account of the appearance of the transit of Mercury on 29 October 1723 by Edmond Halley | 1725 |
| CLP/8ii/64 | Paper, '1735/6 March 15. Eclipse of the Moon observed in Fleet Street [London]' by George Graham | 1736 |
| CLP/21/5 | Paper, 'A discourse concerning gravity and its properties ...' by Edmond Halley | [1687] |
| CLP/21/46 | Paper, 'Of the geography of the ancients and the moderns' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/1/2/2 | Table, puzzle of a 'mystical square' from unknown author to Edmund Halley | [c17th Century] |
| EL/W3/129 | William Whiston, dated at Lyndon near Uppingham, Rutland, to Edmond Halley | 14 October 1720 |
| MM/20/32 | Letter from Johann Friedrich Weidler to Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary, Royal Society | 1 January 1737 |
| IM/001864 | Halley, Edmond | nd |
| EL/I1/98 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/H3/46 | Letter from Edmond Halley | nd |
| EL/I1/119 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| EL/I1/127 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| EL/I1/146 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | nd |
| EL/I1/116 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| RBO/7/19 | 'A Theory of the tides at the Barr of Tunking' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| CLP/21/27 | Paper, 'Account of the circulation of watery vapour of the sea by the sun and of the cause of springs' by Edmond Halley | 1689 |
| MM/17/75 | Letter from Eugene F Macpike to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 9 September 1897 |
| RBO/9/20 | 'A Discourse concerning an Hypothesis of the manner of the General Deluge' by Edmond Halley | nd |
| CLP/21/14 | Paper, 'A discourse tending to explicate the modus of the using of vapours out of water' by Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| CLP/21/15 | Paper, 'A theory of the tides at the Barr of Tunking' by Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| CLP/6/41 | Paper, regarding measuring cisterns in London by Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley | [17th Century] |
| IM/001862 | Halley, Edmond | nd |
| CLP/21/39 | Paper, 'Of conveying air out of the diving bell' by Edmond Halley | 1692 |
| CLP/8i/69 | Paper, observations of the solar eclipse on 27 November 1722 by Edmond Halley | 1722 |
| CLP/21/54 | Paper, 'Of the infinity of the world; and of the number, order, and light of the fixed stars' by Edmond Halley | 1720 |
| EL/L6/59 | James Logan, dated at Pennsylvania, to Edmond Halley | 25 May 1732 |
| EL/I1/132 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| IM/000503 | Quartet engraving | nd |
| CLP/1/21 | Paper, 'Solutio problematis florentum' [Of the solution to the Florentine problem] by David Gregory in his letter to Edmond Halley | 1693 |
| P/0059 | Portrait of Halley, Edmond | |
| MS/69 | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | 1685 |
| CLP/7i/38 | Paper, 'A short relation out of the journall of Captain Abel Jansen [Janszoon] Tasman, upon the discovery of the south terra incognita' by Edmond Halley | [1679-1682] |
| EL/W2/56 | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Edmond Halley | 26 November 1693 |
| MC/1/313 | Letter from Thomas Coates, [Secretary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge], 59 Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 16 June 1831 |
| CLP/9ii/25 | Paper, 'Observations of lattitudes and variation taken on board the Hartford in her passage from Java Head to St Hellena' by unknown author | [1732] |
| CLP/21/45 | Paper, 'Of the Breslau Bills of mortality' by Edmond Halley | [1693] |
| EL/D1/62 | William Derham, dated at Upminster, Essex, to Edmond Halley | 17 August 1714 |
| MC/1 | Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1800-1831 |
| EL/C2/10 | J Caswell to Edmond Halley | 29 June 1686 |
| EL/I1/134 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1689 |
| EL/V/59 | du Val, dated at Luneville, to Edmond Halley | 7 June 1725 |
| EL/I1/112 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | nd |
| EL/I1/96 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/C1/86 | Jean Dominique Cassini to Edmond Halley | 9 July 1701 |
| EL/I1/100 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/H3/45 | Edmond Halley to Reisel | 19 July 1686 |
| EL/C2/48 | John Conduit, dated at Turnham Green, to Edmond Halley | 16 March 1719 |
| EL/I1/131 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| EL/M1/95 | William Molyneux, dated at Dublin, to Edmond Halley | 15 May 1686 |
| EL/H2/52 | Johannes Hevelius, dated at Danzig (Gdansk), to Edmond Halley | 1681 |
| EL/I1/118 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| EL/I1/141 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | nd |
| EL/H3/40 | Edmond Halley, dated at Saumeur, to Robert Hooke | 29 May 1681 |
| EL/B2/33 | Extract of a letter from C Boucher, dated in Jamaica, to Edmond Halley | 1676 |
| EL/I1/133 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| CLP/1/2 | Paper, 'The mystical square of 6' from [Mr St Clare?] to Edmund Halley | [17th century] |
| CLP/1/20/1 | Manuscripts, regarding a rule of gunnery by [Edmond Halley and George Tollet?] | [1685] |
| CLP/1/20 | Papers, regarding a rule of gunnery by [Edmond Halley?] | [1685] |
| CLP/1/21/1 | Manuscript, 'Solutio problematis florentum' [Of the solution to the Florentine problem] by David Gregory in his letter to Edmond Halley | 1693 |
| EL/I1/94 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1685 |
| EL/D2/59 | John Dove to Edmond Halley | 17 March 1731 |
| EL/I1/122 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| EL/M1/98 | William Molyneux, dated at Dublin, to Edmond Halley | 8 October 1690 |
| EL/G1/45 | David Gregory, dated at Oxford, to Edmond Halley | 11 January 1693 |
| EL/A/39 | Letter, from St George Ashe to Edmond Halley, dated at Trinity College Dublin | 15 July 1687 |
| EL/H2/53 | Johannes Hevelius, dated at Danzig (Gdansk), to Edmond Halley | 9 January 1682 |
| EL/H3/49 | Edmond Halley, dated at Chester mint, to Hans Sloane | 26 October 1696 |
| EL/H3/50 | Edmond Halley, dated at Chester Mint, to Hans Sloane | 2 November 1696 |
| EL/A/40 | Letter, from St George Ashe to Edmond Halley, dated at Vienna | 27 July 1690 |
| EL/H3/41 | Edmond Halley to William Molyneux | 27 March 1686 |
| EL/W2/57 | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Edmond Halley | 3 December 1695 |
| EL/I1/106 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/I1/101 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/I1/110 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| EL/I1/130 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| EL/H3/44 | Edmond Halley to Isaac Newton | 22 May |
| EL/L6/13 | Colin McLaurin, dated at College of New Aberdeen, to Edmond Halley | 9 December 1720 |
| EL/R1/48 | N Rooke to Edmond Halley | 7 January 1694 |
| EL/N1/57 | Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley | 27 July 1686 |
| EL/I1/107 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| EL/C2/50 | Bartholomew Candler, dated at Launceston off Crooked Island, to Edmond Halley | 16 August 1722 |
| CLP/21/17 | Paper, 'De constructione problematum solidorum sine aequationum [Concerning the construction of solid problems without equations]' by Edmond Halley | 1687 |
| EL/N1/60 | Isaac Newton, dated at Cambridge, to Edmund Halley | 1 March 1687 |
| EL/N1/55 | Isaac Newton, dated at Cambridge, to Edmund Halley | 20 June 1686 |
| EL/A/41 | Letter, from St George Ashe to Edmond Halley, dated at Vienna | 19 July 1691 |
| EL/B3/13 | James Bradley to Edmond Halley | 1728 |
| EL/H3/48 | Edmond Halley, dated at Chester Castle, to Hans Sloane | 12 October 1696 |
| EL/H3/43 | Edmond Halley, dated at London, to William Molyneux | 27 May 1686 |
| EL/W2/67 | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Edmond Halley | 23 May 1702 |
| EL/H3/96 | Thomas Hill to Edmond Halley | 16 October 1720 |
| EL/I1/103 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/I1/125 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| EL/N1/58 | Isaac Newton, dated at Trinity College Cambridge, to Edmund Halley | 18 October 1686 |
| EL/I1/129 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1688 |
| EL/I1/99 | Henry Justel to Edmond Halley | 1686 |
| EL/E/7 | George Christopher Eimmart, dated at Nuremburg, to Edmond Halley | 14 April 1687 |
| EL/P1/112 | Reverend James Pound, dated at Wanstead, to Edmond Halley | 9 July 1714 |
| EL/H3/38 | Edmond Halley, dated at Oxford, to Henry Oldenburg | 8 July 1676 |
| EL/W2/43 | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Edmond Halley | 14 December 1686 |
| EL/M1/94 | William Molyneux, dated at Dublin, to Edmond Halley | 8 April 1686 |
| EL/M1/96 | William Molyneux, dated at Dublin, to Edmond Halley | 19 June 1686 |
| EL/W2/55 | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Edmond Halley | 11 November 1695 |
| CLP/21/55 | Papers, Odd leaves of manuscript labelled 'imperfect' by Edmond Halley | c.17th century |
| CLP/24/88/28 | Drawing, 'Observations of the comet by Mr Flamsteed' by John Flamsteed | 4 September 1682 |
| EL/H3/39 | Edmond Halley, dated at Queen's College Oxford, to Henry Oldenburg | 8 May 1676 |
| EL/W2/42 | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Edmond Halley | 25 November 1686 |
| EL/N1/59 | Isaac Newton, dated at Trinity College Cambridge, to Edmund Halley | 13 February 1686 |
| EL/A/45 | Letter, from John Aubrey to Edmond Halley, dated at London | 31 August 1695 |
| EL/H3/52 | Edmond Halley, dated at Chester, to Hans Sloane | 25 October 1697 |
| RBO/13/80 | 'The construction of the famous annular Eclipse of the Sun at London March 21 1764 from Astro. Car. Ed. 3 in a letter from Mr Joseph Smith to Edmond Halley' | 1728 |
| RBO/7/38 | Copy of a letter from John Philip Wurzelbaur to Edmond Halley dated 16 September 1687 at Nuremburg | 1687 |
| RBO/11/7 | 'Observations on the Eclipse of the Moon June 18 1722 and the longitude of Port Royal in Jamaica determined thereby' by Edmond Halley | 1722 |
| RBO/9/19b | A general proposition for determining the area of a cycloid and epicycloid by quadrature by Edmund Halley | nd |
| RBO/9/76a | An Account of some Appearances in the Heavens by Mr Edumnd Halley | 1708 |