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Lamarche, Paris, c. 1795
Recent ½ calf with marbled boards, spine in five compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two. , An excellent copy, plates and text are clean and crisp., Large 8vo, P. title, blank, iii-ix, (12), 20-47, blank, (8), 30 star charts., With 15 tables of astronomical data, and 30 double-page hand-coloured celestial charts depicting various constellations.
Text in French.
Flamsteed accurately calculated the solar eclipses of 1666 and 1668. He was responsible for several of the earliest recorded sightings of the planet Uranus, which he mistook for a star and catalogued as 34 Tauri. The first of these was in December, 1690, which remains the earliest known sighting of Uranus by an astronomer. Flamsteed is also remembered for his conflicts with Isaac Newton, the President of the Royal Society at the time. Flamsteed was refusing to publish work that had been commissioned by the king, and in 1712 Newton and Edmond Halley published a preliminary version of Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica without crediting the author. Some years later, Flamsteed managed to buy many copies of the book, and publicly burnt them in front of the Royal Observatory. However, the numerical star designations in this book are still used and are known as Flamsteed designations.
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