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From: The Independent - London | Date: September 11, 1999| Author: Philippa Gregory | Copyright information

In 1675 the foundation stone of the Greenwich Observatory was laid. The observatory was to house telescopes and clocks to make an accurate record of the night skies. The place was equipped, at his own expense, by Sir Jonas Moore, a brick wall with a painted line built to represent zero meridian, and John Flamsteed appointed as royal astronomer. Everyone waited for the revolutionary astronomy charts which Flamsteed would produce.

And waited. Flamsteed said that "it might be better to fo...

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