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John Flamsteed

1646 - 1719

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John Flamsteed (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atlas called Atlas Coelestis, both published posthumously. He also made the first recorded observations of Uranus, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a star, and he laid the foundation stone for the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Flamsteed is the 64th most popular astronomer (up from 70th in 2019), the 612th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 649th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Astronomer.

John Flamsteed was an English astronomer who is most famous for being the first Astronomer Royal of England.

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Among astronomers, John Flamsteed ranks 64 out of 644. Before him are Abu Maʿshar, James Bradley, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Walter Baade, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, and Antonie Pannekoek. After him are Fred Hoyle, Gerard Kuiper, Johann Franz Encke, Max Wolf, Edward Emerson Barnard, and Annibale de Gasparis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, John Flamsteed ranks 4. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian V of Denmark, and Ismail Ibn Sharif. After him are Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Antoine Galland, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, and Charles Plumier. Among people deceased in 1719, John Flamsteed ranks 3. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, and Jean-Baptiste de La Salle. After him are Shah Jahan II, Michel Rolle, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Benjamin Hornigold, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp, Joseph Addison, and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Flamsteed ranks 612 out of 8,785. Before him are John Collier (1850), Andrew Huxley (1917), Peter Gabriel (1950), Jonathan Pryce (1947), David II of Scotland (1324), and Edwin of Northumbria (586). After him are Fred Hoyle (1915), Mike Oldfield (1953), David Attenborough (1926), Eystein II of Norway (1125), Mary Anning (1799), and Robert Palmer (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, John Flamsteed ranks 9. Before him are William Lassell (1799), Martin Ryle (1918), Arthur Eddington (1882), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), John Michell (1724), and James Bradley (1693). After him are Fred Hoyle (1915), Antony Hewish (1924), John Russell Hind (1823), William Huggins (1824), Stephen Gray (1666), and George Biddell Airy (1801).

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