The Election of Edmond Halley to the Savilian Professorship of Geometry

Westfall R. S. , Never at rest: A biography of Sir Isaac Newton (Cambridge, 1980), 500.

Ibid. 541.

Cook A. H. , “Halley in Istria, 1703: Navigator and military engineer”, The Duke of Edinburgh Lecture to the Royal Institute of Navigation, Journal of the Royal Institute of Navigation (in press).

Public Record Office, London, in SP 80/19, 20, 21 and SP 105/67, 68, 69 and 70.

Thrower N. J. W. , The three voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore 1698–1701 (The Hakluyt Society; London, 1981).

For example, George Stepney, the English Ambassador in Vienna wrote to Nottingham on 17 March 1703, “Mr Halley being now ready to return to England, I cannot but accompany him with assurances to your Lord^p that he has performed what he was sent about entirely to the satisfaction of this Court …”, Public Record Office, London, SP 105/67, f. 417.

Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Anne, 1703–4, p. 191.

British Library Add MS 29595, f. 256.

In the appendices to the Laudean Statutes of the University of Oxford.

Acta Congregationis Universitatis Oxoniensis , 1703–1723, f. 251: Certificatoria Professorum in Universitate.

The incumbents of offices are taken from Haydn J. , Dignities (London, 1894).