| The author was the astronomer Edmond Halley, who is far better known today for having a famous comet named after him. |
| Although he has since been mostly forgotten, South was a very prominent astronomer in his day. |
| John Herschel was the son of William Herschel, the astronomer who discovered Uranus. |
| We have to return to the political situation in Rome, which led to the transformation of an unpolitical astronomer into a criminal. |
| Most newly discovered comets seem to originate from an area in space known as the Oort cloud, named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort. |
| The story of the transits of Venus begins in 1627, just three years before the death of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. |
