The world through life stories of its masters

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Week's headliner
Edmond Halley

Next time when lost in the night sky, think about this man:

He left Oxford to St Helena island to observe the stars and got ready with a catalogue of 341 stars already in a year.

He found a way to measure the whole Solar System.

Finally, he calculated the orbit of a comet which he had never seen (and which is now named after him)!

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