HALLE Y. 
vicinity of Lendon, in in the year 1656. He was snowns 
at St. Paul's fchool, under the care o: ef the learned D 
‘homas Gale, where he diftinguifhed himfelf for his fw te 
nee and for the advances which he made in mathe- 
In 1673 he was entered a pentane commoner 
of of Queen" s college, Oxford, where he applied himfelf with 
alf the zeal, of which a great mind is capable, to the ftudies 
of the ince particularly to mathematics and aftronomy. 
Of his {kill in the latter he exhibited a flriking proof, when 
he was only then years o 
world, his “ Direét and amet og Method of finding the 
Aphelia and Excentricity of the Pianets.’’ Ina the month 
une, 1675, he made fome curious obfervations on an 
eclipfe of the mente aang in the yellowing year he communi- 
cated certain difco 
ion of the itars n fouth pole 
616 to “Ne tee and perfected his iat ge which at 
is return he petted 0 dy Whe 
ity .o for the degree 
L.A, oe the ere noe he was ele@ted fellow of the mea 
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age, by communicating to o the ik an 
cafioned a enenies caufed by the fun and wind. ‘The 
Couette was. carried on by the winds ¢riving 
fe vapours 2 the mountains, where, being collected, they: 
je {prings, the ftreams from 2 
many i thefe meeting together in the valleys become. 
rivers, which at Fa, 6 y age vg into the fea. - 
»’ which had been 
ciety, foon = he 
learned 
» geometry, and algebra 5. 
optic eat Prana  valliftics, eo artillery ; {peculative 
and en thn philofophy ; ; natural hiftory, antiquitics, 
me bata one criticifm ; being about twenty-five or 
he sts git ten years of his re- 
new, iin- 
refi 
o ie for whic! 
» Cape Verde, Madeira, the (peta, 
taf Berbary: chart laid a fure foundation 
for the difcovery of the law by which the v aie changes in 
all parts of the world. After thishe war emplared by the” 
king to obferve the courfe of the tides, with the long: 
and latitude of the principal headlands in a4 Beith channel. 
was fent by ge take a furvey of the. 
forming a fafe and con-. 
Curiofa,”’ "in three volumes 
’s Ci akties the treat of 
at Coie Coe He td 
