..."Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." He died 16 years before it actually returned in 1759 to fulfill his prediction. Since...

...made the following modest statement: "Wherefore, if it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." Halley refused to give an exact date for the reappearance of the comet, because he knew...

...until his comet should be seen again, but he hoped that astronomers would carefully watch for it, and he said: "If it should return according to our prediction...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." And posterity has not forgotten it, even now, more than two hundred years afterward, for...

...long before its return, and he wrote thus : — " If it should return according to our predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." Posterity has not refused to admit this fact, and the name of Halley has ever since been...

...two or three occasions, and he predicted that it would c again be seen after his death. " Wherefore, if it should return according to our prediction about...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." When only 21 years of age he undertook a voyage to St. Helena in order to determine the...

...belief proven. So he published his theory, adding: "If it should return according to our predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." The name the comet bears fully shows that posterity, after verifying the truth of Halley...

...a year later. He could not hope to live to see his prediction fulfilled, but wrote : " If the comet should return, according to our prediction, about...impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that it was first discovered by an Englishman." Halley died in 1742, and his grave is to be seen in St....

...factors. Referring to the comet of 1682, he said: "If it should return according to our predictions about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not...to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." This was certainly the most extraordinary prediction ever made, for cometary investigations...

...Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Enylithman.' Such was Hnlley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,...

...Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by on Enyliehman.' Such was Halley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,...