Edward Haynes

Not to be confused with the English politician Edward Heynes.

Edward Haynes or Haines (fl. 1683–1708) was an English astronomer and Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

Haynes observed the lunar eclipse of 11 February 1682 from Basing Lane in London, an event also observed by Edmond Halley and John Flamsteed, at Greenwich. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 2 May 1683, nominated by Flamsteed and Halley.[2][1][3]

A nonconformist, Haynes was in the congregation of Edmund Calamy the Younger, who died at his house in Totteridge, then in Hertfordshire[4] A later published observation from Totteridge noted its distance from London and displacement to the west.[5]

  1. ^ a b royalsociety.org, Haynes; Edward (fl 1683 - 1708).
  2. ^ Alan H. Cook (1998). Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas. Oxford University Press. p. 381. ISBN 978-0-19-850031-5.
  3. ^ Frances Willmoth (1 January 1993). Sir Jonas Moore: Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science. Boydell & Brewer. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-85115-321-6.
  4. ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Calamy, Edmund (1635?-1685)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. ^ Two Astronomical Observations of the Eclipses of the Planet Jupiter, by the Moon in March and April Last, Made at London, Philosophical Transactions Vol. 16, (1686 - 1692), pp. 85-87, at p. 87; Published by: The Royal Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/101845