Edmond Halley (© The Royal Society)

Published 28 Oct 2012 at 3059 × 3724 in What manner of man was Halley?
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Edmond Halley aged about 30 (the inscription is a later addition). This is how Halley would have looked around the time he was publishing Newton’s Principia. (© The Royal Society Image RS.9284)

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