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The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal Volume 2
1144 Pages
by
CRC Press
1144 Pages
by
CRC Press
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The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Volume Two contains the letters Flamsteed wrote and received from June 1682 to the spring of 1703. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. Some of these exchanges... Read more
Acknowledgments
List of letters
Glossary of astronomical and other technical terms
Introduction
Letters 451-900
Biographical notes
Index
List of letters
Glossary of astronomical and other technical terms
Introduction
Letters 451-900
Biographical notes
Index
Biography
Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdlin, Frances Wilmoth
"For all the trauma of a midlife crisis read this book. It's riveting."
-New Scientist, April 19, 1997
"Once again the editors, past and present, and the publishers are to be thoroughly congratulated on setting right 300 years of neglect of perhaps the most unjustly and persistently maligned figure in astronomical history."
-Journal of the British Astronomy Association
