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John Flamsteed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Flamsteed (1646-1719) ... John Flamsteed was an English astronomer who published accurate astronomical observations and was the first Astronomer Royal.
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Biography of John Flamsteed (BB^Y-1719) ... John Flamsteed's father was a business man who was quite wealthy. Flamsteed's mother however died when he was still a child and this affected his upbringing.
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English astronomer, born at Denby, near Derby, on the 19th of August 1646. The only son of Stephen Flamsteed, ... A tract on the equation of time, written by him in 1667, was published by Dr. John Wallis with the Posthumous Works of Jeremiah Horrocks (1673); and a paper embodying his calculations of appulses to stars by the...
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John Flamsteed, (London, 1835), pp. xxiii-xlix, QB36 .F6A2 This work contains Flamsteed's autobiographical sketches and his correspondence as it was then known. ... John Flamsteed, The "Gresham Lectures" of John Flamsteed, ed. Eric G. Forbes, (London, 1975).
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Biographical Encyclopaedia of Astronomers, 2007 Flamsteed, John Born Denby, Derbyshire, England, 19 August 1646 Died Greenwich, England, 31 December 1719 John Flamsteed was the premier star cataloger of his time and the first Astronomer Royal of England.
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Charles II agreed, and made Flamsteed the first royal astronomer. He was a meticulous observer, refusing to publish until his work was completed. Eventually, he published a star catalog three times as large as Tycho Brahe's.
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John Flamsteed was the son of a prosperous merchant in Denby near Derby, Derbyshire, England. He studied astronomy between 1662 and 1669 on his own and opposed by his father. He was employed by King Charles II. as Britain's first Royal Astronomer on March 4, 1675, on the recommendation of Jonas Moore.
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