{
  "name": "Halley’s Comet: forecasts and events, 1757 to 1759",
  "desc": "Halley’s Comet: forecasts and events, 1757 to 1759. Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight, 2026-11-05. License of this compilation: CC BY 4.0. Column sources: label, start, end and who = Edmund Halley, A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets (London, 1705), p. 22; A Compendious View of the Astronomy of Comets (London: J. Millan, 1757), pp. 14-15, 18; George F. Chambers, The Story of the Comets (Oxford, 1909), pp. 108-110; Simon Newcomb, \"Comet\", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. 6 (1910), p. 763, as named in each row. Row kind claim is a later report of the forecast, not Halley's own words. Facts from sources that do not permit reuse are not included in this file; see the article's Exhibits.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Hoax and Hindsight",
  "url": "https://hoaxandhindsight.com/past-futures/halleys-comet/",
  "from": [
    "Edmund Halley, A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets (London, 1705)",
    "A Compendious View of the Astronomy of Comets (London: J. Millan, 1757)",
    "George F. Chambers, The Story of the Comets (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909)",
    "Simon Newcomb, \"Comet\", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. 6 (1910), p. 763"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Edmund Halley, A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets (1705); A Compendious View of the Astronomy of Comets (1757); George F. Chambers, The Story of the Comets (1909); Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. 6 (1910), \"Comet\""
  ]
}