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Flamsteed, John (flăm`stēd), 1646–1719, English astronomer. He was appointed (1675) astronomer royal by King Charles II and carried on his researches at Greenwich Observatory. Over his protests—he did not consider it ready for publication—the Historia Coelestis, which included the first of the Greenwich star catalogs, was published in 1712. His complete work, Historia Coelestis Britannica, finished after his death by his assistants, did not appear until 1725.
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He had heated run-ins with Robert Hooke over optics, with John Flamsteed, England's Astronomer Royal, over the control of astronomical data, and with the German mathematician gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over which of them invented calculus (historians say the two men invented calculus independently of one another). Charles II appoints John Flamsteed to the new post of Astronomer Royal. |
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