Waff, Craig B. (Author)
Skinner, Stephen (Author)
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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