Ask flamsteed for the truth

From: Derby Evening Telegraph | Date: June 21, 2007 | Copyright information

So Doomsday will be 2060, according to Sir Isaac Newton, as reported in Tuesday's Daily Mail?

I would recommend that that paper's science reporter Fiona MacRae, who wrote this, takes such predictions with a pinch of salt and studies the life of Derby's John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal. King Charles II pulled down a fort and used the bricks to build Greenwich Observatory to accommodate the genius that was Flamsteed.

He was later referred to as the father of modern astron...

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