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  • The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal: Volume 2

    The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal by Forbes, Eric Gray; Murdin, Lesley; Wilmoth, Frances;

    Volume 2

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    Product details:

    • Edition number and title Volume 1
    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher CRC Press
    • Date of Publication 1 January 1997

    • ISBN 9780750303910
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages1144 pages
    • Size 254x178 mm
    • Weight 2585 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    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 involved established correspondents, chiefly Newton and Wallis, but members of a younger generation, such as Stephen Gray, William Derham, and Abraham Sharp, appear with increasing frequency, especially after 1700.

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    Long description:

    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 involved established correspondents, chiefly Newton and Wallis, but members of a younger generation, such as Stephen Gray, William Derham, and Abraham Sharp, appear with increasing frequency, especially after 1700.

    "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

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements. List of letters. Glossary of astronomical and other technical terms. Introduction. Letters 451 - 900. Biographical notes. Index.

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