English astronomer Edmond Halley (of Halley’s Comet) A new Google Doodle today honors the 374th birthday of the Danish anatomist Nicolas Steno, the man widely regarded as the father of modern geology.
Indeed, Twain died the day after the next Halley's Comet passing, named after astronomer Edmond Halley. How appropriate that in a month that a Google Doodle featured Halley's Comet that Google would follow up by celebrating Mark Twain's 176th...
Edmond Halley, the English astronomer who computed the orbit and named the famous Halley's Comet, was born on this date in 1656. Today, in honor of Halley's birthday, a special logo appears on Google's UK home page.
