A Defence of Halley against the Charge of Religious Infidelity.
Libri antichi e moderni
Rigaud (Stephen Peter)
Oxford: The Ashmolean Society, 1844.,
A Defence of Halley against the Charge of Religious Infidelity.
Libri antichi e moderni
Rigaud (Stephen Peter)
Oxford: The Ashmolean Society, 1844.,
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- Autore
- Rigaud (Stephen Peter)
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- Oxford: The Ashmolean Society, 1844.
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- ASTRONOMY
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First edition, vignette on title, 32pp., disbound. The following anecdote is often quoted: when the astronomer Edmond Halley (1656-1742), of comet fame, once spoke depreciatively on the subject of astrology, Newton is said to have berated him with the remark: ìSir Halley, I have studied the matter, you have not!î Brewster attributes the anecdote to the astronomer Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), from 1765 director of the Greenwich Observatory, who passed it on to the Oxford professor in astronomy, Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774-1839).
