Edmond Halley Quotes
- This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent…
- Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy…
- Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth:…
- Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
- This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.