List of Famous people with last name Flamsteed

John Flamsteed

First Name John
Last Name Flamsteed
Born on August 19, 1646
Died on December 31, 1719 (aged 73)

John Flamsteed FRS 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.

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