Halley's Quest A Selfless Genius and His Troubled Paramore (2005) / Chapter Skim
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Portrait of Edmond Halley in a Royal Navy captain's uniform was painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller when Halley was presumably in his early 40s, about the time he set sail aboard the Paramore. Source: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
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Source: Courtesy of the Trustees of the Portsmouth Estate. Image by photographer Jeremy Whitaker.
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Source: The Royal Society.
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Source: Royal Astronomical Society.
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Helena Rio de Janeiro Trinidada First Voyage Second Voyage The routes of Halley's first and second voyages on the Atlantic aboard the Paramore in 1698 and 1699-1700, respectively. Pernambuco is modern day Recife, and Trinidada is modern Trinidade, Brazil.
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Although he published a description of his invention in a 1689 edition of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions, this image appeared in a more popular publication decades after his death. His underwater adventures are described in Chapter 8.
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Source: Hevelius' 1673 Machina Coelestis at the Royal Astronomical Society.
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It is the site of the Prime Meridian and also where Halley's capstone was relocated in 1845. Source: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
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