Author: RIGAUD (Stephen Peter)
Title: A Defence of Halley against the Charge of Religious Infidelity.
Description: Oxford: The Ashmolean Society, 1844. First edition, vignette on title, 32pp., disbound. The following anecdote is often quoted: when the astronomer Edmond Halley (1656-1742), of comet fame, once spoke depreciatively on the subject of astrology, Newton is said to have berated him with the remark: "Sir Halley, I have studied the matter, you have not!" Brewster attributes the anecdote to the astronomer Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), from 1765 director of the Greenwich Observatory, who passed it on to the Oxford professor in astronomy, Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774-1839).

Keywords: ASTRONOMY