An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds.
Halley's Comet might be named after Edmond Halley, but it was a British monk, Eilmer of Malmesbury, who first saw it ...
The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the pattern” credit to someone far earlier than Edmond Halley: an 11th-century English monk. New interdisciplinary research ...
However, new research has revealed that an 11th-century English monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury actually recognized the comet ...
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