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Derby man produced definitive star atlas ; Britain's first Astronomer Royal was a Derby man, John Flamsteed. Appointed just 328 years ago today, Maxwell Craven examines his invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the universe.
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Britain's first Astronomer Royal was a Derby man, John
Flamsteed. Appointed just 328 years ago today, Maxwell Craven
examines his invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the
universe.
Exactly 328 years ago today, Britain's first Astronomer Royal
was appointed by Charles II.
There were hard-headed economics behind it - the necessity to
improve and make safer maritime trade by discovering a method of
determining longitude.
The marine chronometer was still a century a...
