...planet. He wrote: "Wherefore, if it should return according to our predictions about the year 175S. impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." This was not only a great advance in astronomy and important in its relation to the theory...

..."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."2 No one could be certain he was right, much less that it might not succumb to a churlish...

...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. Englishmen have with just pride acknowledged Halley's claim, and science has honoured his...

...comet that "if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758 [as of course it did], impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."21 Or to move abruptly to the present, we see the Russians, now that they have taken a...

...nation invents, only for the neglect to publish them ourselves." So, also, Halley says of his comet that "if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758 [as of course it did], impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered...

...to see his prediction fulfilled. However, he hoped that, 'if the comet should return in 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman'.4 His wish has certainly been fulfilled. Halley has been perturbed out of the Oort Cloud...

..."Where, if according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1 758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." ' 9 In 1 7 1 9 Halley was appointed Astronomer Royal, a position he held until his death...

...Wherefore, if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year l758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. Edmond Halley, (152.Astronomical Tables, London The generally unexpected and sometimes...

...enough to see his prediction fulfilled, he hoped that, "if the comet should return in 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman" [66]. Comet Halley has been perturbed out of the Oort Cloud into a retrograde Earth-crossing...

...what we have already said it should return again about the year 1 758," he wrote immodestly, "candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."2 According to Brian Marsden, a fellow Englishman and celestial mechanician at Harvard,...