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On this day in 1646 – August 19th – English astronomer John Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire.

Flamsteed was the first Astronomer Royal at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, and his star atlas was the standard for a nearly a century.


Mona Evans
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