Edward Halley – Edmond (or Edmund) Halley FRS
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Edward_Halley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates
Edward Halley is an “Aztecosaurologist” and an old colleague of Cyrus Drake. He begins the Wizard’s journey to Azteca by contacting Professor Drake for help.
Halley is also a preeminent Spiralonomer as the observatory at the Marleybone Royal Museum is named after him.
Edmond (or Edmund) Halley FRS (November 8 [O.S. October 29] 1656 – January 25, 1742 [O.S. January 14, 1741]) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.
From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, Halley catalogued the southern celestial hemisphere and recorded a transit of Mercury across the Sun. He realized that a similar transit of Venus could be used to determine the distances between Earth, Venus, and the Sun. Upon his return to England, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society, and with the help of King Charles II, was granted a master’s degree from Oxford.
Halley encouraged and helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton’s influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). From observations Halley made in September 1682, he used Newton’s laws of motion to compute the periodicity of Halley’s Comet in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets. It was named after him upon its predicted return in 1758, which he did not live to see.
Fellowship of the Royal Society is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a “substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science”.
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, this is the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in various European countries between 1582 and 1923.
The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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