...reassured himself of the accuracy of his calculations, and he concludes with the following appeal : ' Wherefore, if according to what we have already said,...acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. Englishmen have with just pride acknowledged Halley's claim, and science has honoured his memory by...

..."if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758 [as of course it did], impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."21 Or to move abruptly to the present, we see the Russians, now that they have taken a...

...reappear in 1758 and later wrote (in his Tabulae Astronomicae, published posthumously in 1749): "Where, 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."...

...long enough to see his prediction fulfilled. However, he hoped that, 'if the comet should return in 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman'.4 His wish has certainly been fulfilled. Halley has been perturbed out of the Oort Cloud...

...he would never live to see the prediction fulfilled, Halley made this famous statement before dying: "Wherefore if according to what we have already said...refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered bv an / Englishman." When he died, in 1742, at the advanced age of eighty-seven, the comet's return...

...see if his calculations proved to be correct But he expressed the hope that later generations would not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. 5Later generations have been, in one sense, generous to Halley. His name is forever associated with...

...Elements in these three, which would be next to a miracle if they were three different Comets. . . . Wherefore, if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year l758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman....

...not live long enough to see his prediction fulfilled, he hoped that, "if the comet should return in 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman" [66]. Comet Halley has been perturbed out of the Oort Cloud into a retrograde Earth-crossing orbit....

...conclusion that these three comets were probably returns of the same comet. Halley was proud of his work: "Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1 758," he wrote immodestly, "candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered...

...knew he would not live to see if his calculations proved to be correct. But he expressed the hope that "candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman". Indeed on Christmas night in 1759, almost 17 years after Halley 's death, the comet was seen again...