Article ID: CBB000066173

Tales from the First International Halley Watch (1755-59), 2: Thomas Stevenson of Barbados and his two-comet theory (1987)

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Description Describes the life of Stevenson, a plantation owner on the Caribean island of Barbados, who proposed a two-comet theory to explain the wide variation in the period of the comets seen in 1305, 1380, 1456, 1531, 1607, and 1682 that Halley had identified as one and the same; Stevenson's difficulties in making observations in 1759 of Comet Halley (including apparently the first and last made in the postperihelion period) are also briefly described.


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Authors & Contributors
Genuth, Sara Schechner
Beech, Martin
Akira Okazaki
Necchi, Rosa
Thierry Belleguic
Ampollini, Ilaria
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
ZfV. Zeitschrift für Geodäsie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement
Social Studies of Science
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Philosophia Naturalis
Nature
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Geest & Portig
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Concepts
Comets; meteors; meteorites
Astronomy
Cosmology
Science and art
Meteorology
Communication, Written
People
Halley, Edmond
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme le Français de
Newton, Isaac
Messier, Charles
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Herschel, Caroline
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Enlightenment
19th century
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Vietnam
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