edmund halley

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   English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)

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edmund halley means "English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)".

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Close synonyms include Halley, Edmond Halley. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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