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  • A Benjamin Franklin ✔ ✖
  • B James Watt ✔ ✖
  • C Edmund Halley ✔ ✖
  • D Blaise Pascal ✔ ✖
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Edmond Halley, FRS ( 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 – 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741]) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed.

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