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Edmond Halley, Astronomer Royal (1656-1746) Interest_History Visit our Prints site forEdmond Halley is one of astronomy's most fascinating and colourful figures. A Londoner born and bred, his genius saw him elected FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) at 22. His career spanned celestial cartography, an Oxford Professorship, a daring explorer captaincy in the Royal Navy, service as a diplomat, and Astronomer Royal. Meteorology, geology, and the ancient, pre human history of the earth were early subjects of original research for him. A half