Edmond Halley
1656–1742 · United Kingdom
🌍 View on the globeInventions and discoveries · 5
- 1674-1686Quantified hydrological cycleDiscovery · discoverer
- 1686Trade winds and their explanationDiscovery · discoverer
- 1691 (campana) / c. 1715 (escafandra de Lethbridge)Diving bell and diving suitInvention or technique · inventor
- 1705 (retorno 1758)Halley's Comet periodicity and predicted returnDiscovery · discoverer
- 1718Stellar proper motionDiscovery · discoverer