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Lived: 1656 - 1742
The second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. Recorded a transit of Mercury across the Sun, noting that a similar transit of Venus could be used to determine the size of the Solar System.
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From his September 1682 observations, he used the laws of motion to compute the periodicity of Halley's Comet in his 1705 "Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets".
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