Edward Haynes

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

Not to be confused with the English politician Edward Heynes.

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]

Notes
  1. 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. 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
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