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The records of the early astronomers royal, including Edmund Halley and John Flamsteed, will also be put online.
Sir Isaac Newton's own annotated Principia Mathematica goes online 2011
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Flamsteed discovered proper motion, and Bradley discovered aberration, trying to detect it.
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The landing site is in the northeast corner of the Flamsteed Ring, a 100 km diameter impact crater almost completely buried by mare lavas such that all that remains exposed is the upper part of the original crater rim.
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The celestial globe is based on the astronomical observations of Flamsteed and Lacaille.
Archive 2008-02-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008
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The celestial globe is based on the astronomical observations of Flamsteed and Lacaille.
David Rumsey's Maps: Nathan Babcock's interactive sculpties bring cartography to life Bettina Tizzy 2008
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In 1695, active solar observers were La Hire in Paris, Flamsteed in England, Eimmart in Nuremberg, and Gulielmini in Bononia.
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There was also a hoax in the newspapers in 1693 claiming spots were seen on the sun for the first time since 1684, but this hoax was denounced by Flamsteed in one of his letters.
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Recent research has given us the date of observations by Hevelius, Picard, La Hire, Flamsteed, and about 70 other observers.
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Before he could read, Luna had become his home—craterbases like Bianchini under the shadow of the great Jura Range, or maria bases like Flamsteed and Herigonius.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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Before he could read, Luna had become his home—craterbases like Bianchini under the shadow of the great Jura Range, or maria bases like Flamsteed and Herigonius.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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