Edmund Halley House, Oxford, UK [Photography]

My Word with Douglas E. Welch · Sep 30, 2026

This is part of a series of photos from our trip to Sicily and Oxford, UK in September 2026

“Edmond Halley was appointed the next Savilian Professor of Geometry in January 1703/4 and is believed to have moved here two months later as a sub-tenant under the lease that John Wallis had held from New College. In 1705 an observatory was built for him on his home. As well as a mathematician, Edmond Halley was an astronomer, geophysicist, meteorologist, and physicist, and a friend of Isaac Newton. In 1682 he observed the comet that was named after him, and in 1684 computed its orbit.&#8221…