Edmond Halley to Hans Sloane – July 1, 1727
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Date: July 1, 1727 Author: Edmond Halley Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048 Folio: ff. 317-318
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British Library, London
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Social
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Council, Meeting
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July 1, 1727
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Grenwich [sic]
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Halley was surprised to receive a summons ‘to attend you at a Councill on Tuesday next’. He is not sure when the meeting is to take place and will stop by ‘according to your first designation’. Edmond Halley left Oxford without an undergraduate degree to travel the world, giving him the opportunity to study astronomy on the spot. Upon returning to England he had a prestigious career and collaborated with Sir Isaac Newton, entered the public service, served as a professor at Oxford, and was appointed Astronomer Royal in 1721 (Alan Cook, “Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12011, accessed 1 June 2011]).
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