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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/264959968 Title: Halley in 90 minutes : 1656-1742 Author: John R Gribbin; Mary Gribbin Publisher: London : Constable, 1997. ISBN/ISSN: 0094770301 9780094770300 OCLC:264959968

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Halley in 90 minutes : 1656-1742

Author:	John R Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
Publisher:	London : Constable, 1997.
Series:	Scientists in 90 minutes
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:	based on 1 rating(s) 1 with a review

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Genre/Form:	Biography
Named Person:	Edmond Halley
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	John R Gribbin; Mary Gribbin Find more information about:
ISBN:	0094770301 9780094770300
OCLC Number:	264959968
Description:	80 p. ; 20 cm.
Series Title:	Scientists in 90 minutes
Other Titles:	Halley in ninety minutes.
Responsibility:	John and Mary Gribbin.

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Review of Halley in 90 minutes by John and Mary Gribbin published by Constable of London in 1997.

Reviewer: W. P. Palmer

This very short book is part of a series written by John and Mary Gribbin and published by Constable. The books are written to a standard pattern being about sixty pages in length with a further fifteen pages listing the main events in the history of science. There are no indices and no illustrations apart from the front covers of this paperback series. Scientists chosen in this series include Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Faraday, Galileo, Mendel, Newton and the scientist chosen in the book under review, Edmond Halley (1656-1742).

I suspect that there are no other books that introduce Edmond Halley to the general reader in a refreshingly simple manner as this book is well written, accurate and well-researched. Haley's name is familiar to the wider public, probably only because of the regular appearance of Halley's comet every seventy-six years. A few people interested in science may also know that we should be grateful to Halley because he persuaded Isaac Newton to publish his great work `Principia' when without his intervention, it might have been lost for ever.

John and Mary Gribbin add to those limited facts about Halley's life, though they acknowledge that there are periods of his life, about which historians have no clear picture. They consider that the periodicity of Halley's comet is perhaps `the least important thing he did (p.12)' Halley was born in a family that was well off, though later in life both he and his father were reduced in circumstances. He did well at school and went to university at Queen's College, Oxford. He did not bother to complete his degree, not for lack of ability, but rather because he wished to pursue his interests in astronomy at a higher level. He completed his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen and had a long and distinguished career a scientist, inventor, diplomat and spy for the British Government. He died at the age of 85 with a glass of wine in his hands (p. 59).

BILL PALMER

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