...he " if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1 758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." As the statement of La Place is rather curious, and will give us some insight into the management of this...

..."Wherefore, if according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758. candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." Englishmen have with just pride acknowledged Halley's claim, and science has honored his memory by...

...the satisfaction of proving the truth of their astronomical calculations. PART II. COMET-SEEKERS. " Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction,...that this was first discovered by an Englishman." — Halley's words concerning the return of his comet. WHO has not heard of Halley's comet, a blazing...

...before the end of 1758, or the beginning t,f 1759. " Wherefore," says this illustrious astronomer, " if it should return according to our prediction about...year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to ac knowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."* As the time fixed by Halley for the...

...Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." When the comet blazed forth on Christmas day, 1758, it was forever shorn of the dreadful divinity with...

...correspondence of the intervals. " Wherefore," he remarked, in announcing the result of his investigation, " if it should return, according to our prediction,...that this was first discovered by an Englishman." He had been gathered to the grave in Lee churchyard seventeen years when the prediction was verified....

...Wherefore, if according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.' * Posterity has remembered and science recognised the claim of the English astronomer, by giving his...

...Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 17.38, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Enylishman. Such was Halley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course,...

...return about the end of 1758 or the beginning of 1759. He thus plaintively wrote on the subject : — " Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction...that this was first discovered by an Englishman." Although Halley did not survive to see his prediction fulfilled, yet, as the time drew near, great...

...the fulfilment of his prediction, but he says : " If it should return, according to our predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not...that this was first discovered by an Englishman." This was, indeed, a remarkable prediction of an event to occur fifty-three years after it had been...