 One of Street's pamphlets described how he engaged in a vigorous polemic with Vincent Wing, his astronomical competitor, who had published a criticism of Street's "Astronomia Carolina".Edmond Halley (1656–1742), Street's much younger contemporary, wrote of Street as his 'good friend' (according to Halley's biographer), and said that they had observed a lunar eclipse together.Halley wrote an appendix to the 1710 edition of Street's "Astronomia Carolina", and Cajori (op.