John Flamsteed
1646 CE–1719 CE · Denby
John Flamsteed (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) 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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- Regnier de Graaf· 1641 CE–1673 CE
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- Ole Rømer· 1644 CE–1710 CE
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