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	John Flamsteed
		The only son of Stephen Flamsteed, a maltster, he was educated at the free school of Derby, but left it finally in May 1662, in consequence of a rheumatic affection of the joints, due to a chill caught while bathing.
		Flamsteed denounced the production as surreptitious; he committed to the flames three hundred copies, of which he obtained possession through the favor of Sir Robert Walpole; and, in defiance of bodily infirmities, vigorously prosecuted his designs for the entire and adequate publication of the materials he continued to accumulate.
		A portrait of Flamsteed, painted by Thomas Gibson in 1712, hangs in the rooms of the Royal Society.
	www.nndb.com /people/727/000096439 (801 words)

	John Flamsteed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Flamsteed was born in Denby, near Derby on 19 August 1646 to a wealthy maltster and died in Greenwich on 31 December 1719.
		Flamsteed’s ambition was to prepare a new comprehensive star catalogue that would finally replace that of Tycho Brahe, and he carried out numerous observations over several decades, as well as determining the exact latitude of the observatory, the obliquity of the ecliptic and the position of the equinox.
		Flamsteed immediately embarked upon a concentrated effort to prepare a new edition, but did not live to complete it, and it was left to his widow and former assistants to produce, in 1725, the three volumes of his opus magnum, the Historia coelestis Britannia.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/flamsteed.htm (1069 words)

	John Flamsteed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Flamsteed, (19 August 1646 - 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer.
		Three hundred years later, the American astronomical historian William Ashworth suggested that what Flamsteed may have seen was the most recent supernova in the galaxy's history, an event which would leave as its remnant the strongest radio source in the sky, known in the third Cambridge (3C) catalogue as 3C 461.
		Flamsteed is also remembered for his conflicts with Isaac Newton, then President of the Royal Society, who attempted to steal some of Flamsteed's findings for his own work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Flamsteed (436 words)

	Flamsteed biography
		Flamsteed's father always maintained that it was because of his son's ill health that he opposed his studying but Flamsteed, in his correspondence in later life, suggested that his father may have had other motives.
		Flamsteed was a skilled observer and had a number of observing programmes at the Royal Observatory to answer major questions.
		Flamsteed never quite seemed to understand what Newton required and the two were not on the best of terms, in fact Flamsteed was a perfectionist and was not an easy man to get on with.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Flamsteed.html (819 words)

	Flamsteed designation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek letters.
		There are examples of stars bearing Flamsteed designations for constellations in which they do not lie, just as there are for Bayer designations, because of the compromises that had to be made when the modern constellation boundaries were drawn up.
		Some entries in Flamsteed's catalog are errors: for instance, Flamsteed observed Uranus in 1690 but did not recognized it as a planet and it entered his catalog as "34 Tauri".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flamsteed_designation (319 words)

	Astronomy in history: John Flamsteed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Arbuthnot, a letter was forwarded to Flamsteed to comply in the interests of loyalty to the Queen.
		Flamsteed was suffering from a severe attack of gout, no doubt made worse by the meeting of Halley at the door, offering him a cup of coffee.
		Flamsteed was finishing his own version of the catalogue when he died on New Year's Eve, 1719; but the work was finished by 2 of his friends, Joseph Crosthwait and Abraham Sharp, and was published in 1725.
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	AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A self-educated son of a Derby maltster, Flamsteed came to London and was active in astronomical pursuits there in the early 1670s, at a time when King Charles II became interested in the problem of the determination of the longitude at sea.
		Flamsteed devoted the remaining 43 years of his life to the nightly observation of the sky and the daily reduction of his observations.
		Flamsteed's observations were finally published, posthumously, in the manner he had envisaged and to the accuracy which he required, in the three-volume 'Historia Coelestis Britannica...of 1725' and the folio 'Atlas Coelestis' of 1728.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/6679.html (694 words)

	Flamsteed
		Flamsteed's father always maintained that it was because of his son's ill health that he opposed his studying but Flamsteed, in his correspondence in later life, suggested that his father may have had other motives.
		Flamsteed was a skilled observer and had a number of observing programmes at the Royal Observatory to answer major questions.
		Flamsteed never quite seemed to understand what Newton required and the two were not on the best of terms, in fact Flamsteed was a perfectionist and was not an easy man to get on with.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Flamsteed.html (790 words)

	Flamsteed \| John \| 1646-1719 \| 1st astronomer royal
		Flamsteed's favour with the King improved dramatically in the winter of 1674-1675, when a French courtier of Charles II suggested a method of calculating longitude, accurate knowledge of which is crucial for safe navigation.
		Flamsteed demonstrated that the theory was impractical due to the inexactitude of existing stellar measurements, which had not been refined since the time of Tycho de Brahe (1546-1601), before the time of telescope when telescopes were not used.
		Flamsteed and Newton's feuding - particularly Newton's arrogance and Flamsteed's obstruction of Newton's quest for information - had a negative impact on the progress of science, Newton having abandoned some of his studies of the Moon because of Flamsteed's refusal to provide data on its orbit.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0265.html (570 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Flamsteed was not sent to the university because of ill health.
		Flamsteed's lifelong task was to replace existing observational data of the heavens with more exact tables.
		After Flamsteed took the position of Astronomer Royal (obtained in part through Moore's influence), Moore furnished him a micrometer, lenses and two clocks and those were the only instruments he got at that time.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/flamsted.html (719 words)

	Images of Tycho Brahe: John Flamsteed
		John Flamsteed became the first Astronomer Royal on the founding of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in 1675.
		Like his mentor, Flamsteed was devoted to astronomical measurement, was responsible for equipping and developing an observatory, received patronage from the king while also meeting many of his own costs, and was, he believed, beset by enemies and detractors.
		As the first incumbent, Flamsteed had to fashion the image of the occupant of the Royal Observatory and Tycho, 'the greatest prince among astronomers', was a valuable resource.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /tycho/flam.htm (327 words)

	John Flamsteed Biography / Biography of John Flamsteed Main Biography
		John Flamsteed was born at Denby near Derby on Aug. 19, 1646, the only son of Stephen Flamsteed.
		John attended the Free School in Derby until he was forced to leave because of illness.
		Flamsteed's interest in astronomy was stirred by the solar eclipse of 1662, and besides reading all he could find on the subject he attempted to make his own measuring instruments.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-flamsteed (235 words)

	Flamsteed, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the first Astronomer Royal of England, Flamsteed determined the latitude of Greenwich, the slant of the ecliptic, and the position of the equinox.
		Flamsteed was born near Derby and studied at Cambridge.
		Flamsteed began his astronomical studies at home by observing a solar eclipse 1662, about which he corresponded with other astronomers.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/F/Flamsteed/1.html (198 words)

	BBC - History - John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Flamsteed had to supply all the instruments at Greenwich himself, and was forced to take private pupils to augment his income.
		In 1704 Prince George of Denmark undertook the cost of publication and, despite the prince's death in 1708 and Flamsteed's objections, 400 copies were printed in 1712, prepared for the press by Edmond Halley.
		Flamsteed finally won his point and by court order had the printed catalogue returned to him before it was generally distributed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/flamsteed_john.shtml (321 words)

	Station Information - John Flamsteed
		John Flamsteed, astronomer, was born on August 19, 1646 in Denby, Derbyshire, England.
		Newton tricked Flamsteed into doing so through an edict from the King, and produced the findings without crediting Flamsteed.
		Some years later, Flamsteed managed to buy most copies of the books back, and publicly burnt them in front of the Royal Observatory.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_flamsteed.html (257 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Flamsteed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Three hundred years later, the American astronomy historian William Ashworth suggested that what Flamsteed may have seen was the most recent supernova in this galaxy's history, an event which would leave as its remnant the strongest radio source in the sky, known in the third Cambridge (3C) catalog as 3C 461.
		Flamsteed crater on the Moon is named for him.
		Flamsteed is a small lunar crater located on the Oceanus Procellarum.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Flamsteed (1445 words)

	The Royal Observatory Greenwich--Chapter 2 Flamsteed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Flamsteed heard from him any more: when, considering with himself that what he had done was not well understood, he set himself to examine how many folio pages his work when printed would fill; and found upon an easy computation that they would at least take up 1400.
		Flamsteed adhered absolutely to his position, from which it is clear it would have been extremely difficult for the greatest tact and consideration to have dislodged him.
		Flamsteed not only met with harsh treatment during his lifetime; he has not yet received, except from a few, anything like the meed of appreciation which is his just due; but, at least, his successors in the office have not forgotten him.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /bookman/library/ROG/ROG02.HTM (5871 words)

	John Flamsteed (1646-1719) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His report to the Royal Society on the need for a new observatory resulted in the founding (1675) of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, of which he was the first director (and hence astronomer royal).
		A small inheritance from his father, who died in 1688, provided the means to construct a mural arc, a wall-mounted instrument for measuring the altitudes of stars as they passed the meridian.
		In 1704 Prince George of Denmark undertook the cost of publication, and, despite the prince's death in 1708 and Flamsteed's objections, the incomplete observations were edited by Halley, and 400 copies were printed in 1712.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/britannicapages/Flamsteed/Flamsteed.html (301 words)

	John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
		John Flamsteed was the son of a prosperous merchant in Denby near Derby, Derbyshire, England.
		On August 16, 1680, Flamsteed possiby observed, but didn't recognize the significance of the Cassiopeia A supernova which possibly occured at that time, and which he cataloged as "3 Cassiopeiae".
		While urged by Edmond Halley, Flamsteed refused to publish his observations for a long time, pointig out that as he had to fund his instruments, they were his property.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/flamsteed.html (601 words)

	No. 627: The Duchess and Greenwich
		Flamsteed saw that St Pierre's method was inherently inaccurate.
		And when Flamsteed questioned St Pierre, he found the fellow didn't even understand the method he was proposing.
		Flamsteed's answer to St Pierre made it crystal clear that England urgently needed the observatory.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi627.htm (435 words)

	ST ALFEGE \| The Reverend John Flamsteed (1646-1719) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Derbyshire in 1646, John Flamsteed showed an early talent for practical astronomy, and his work in this field became known among scholars.
		Flamsteed made great efforts to get an adequate provision of astronomical instruments and to make arrangements for carrying out his observations but, despite the King's promise, little further was forthcoming, and he had to pay out of his own pocket the assistants to help him carry out his Herculean tasks.
		On the 300th anniversary of Flamsteed's birth, it was said in tribute to him that he realised better than any of his contemporaries what was needed in his day for the promotion of astronomy and that he worked unflaggingly to achieve it.
	www.st-alfege.org /flamsted.htm (392 words)

	Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Flamsteed and Stephen Gray are not names your children or grandchildren are ever likely to see on an SOL test.
		Flamsteed and Gray’s troubles began, according to Clark, when they ran afoul of Sir Isaac Newton, who was at the time president of the Royal Society—Great Britain’s leading scientific organization.
		Flamsteed was a scientist with a capacity for painstaking astronomical observations; yet he also was an Anglican divine concerned about his parish.
	webpages.charter.net /maburgess/science (1345 words)

	Flamsteed, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		English astronomer John Flamsteed served as astronomer to Charles II.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034483 (712 words)

	Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Flamsteed was a skilled observer and had a number of observing forums at the Royal Observatory to answer major questions.
		And when John Herschel died in 1871, there was a deep sense of loss throughout the entire scientific community, as though a member of their own family had passed on.
		John Herschel spent long periods with his aunt Caroline during vacations, and was greatly influenced by her.
	www.belmontnc.4dw.net /AstroBio.htm (16917 words)

	Argyropoulos, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		English astronomer John Frederick William Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, on March 7, 1792.
		John Herschel discovered 525 star clusters and nebulae not recorded by his father, and he made the first telescopic survey of the southern heavens.
		British singer, composer, and pianist Elton John ranked as one of the most popular entertainers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002279 (704 words)

	Flamsteed, Atlas, 1729 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Flamsteed was the first Astronomer Royal of England and presided over the building of Greenwich Observatory.
		One of Flamsteed's principal motives in publishing the atlas was to correct what Flamsteed felt were serious errors in Bayer's depiction of the constellation figures.
		Since most stars were still referred to by their Ptolemaic labels, Flamsteed objected to Bayer's revisions as introducing unnecessary confusion into stellar astronomy, and so all his figures follow the traditional descriptions exactly, as we can see in comparing the Orion figures in Flamsteed and Bayer.
	www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/stars/fla.htm (326 words)

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