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.
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 birthday with a panoramic Doodle depicting one of the most famous characters he created, Tom Sawyer.
Edmond Halley, the English astronomer who computed the orbit and named the famous Halley's Comet, was born on this date in 1656. Halley did not live to witness the comet's return, but when it did, the comet became generally known as Halley's Comet...
