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John Flamsteed

1646 - 1719

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Flamsteed has received more than 271,720 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). John Flamsteed is the 70th most popular astronomer (down from 55th in 2019), the 649th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 609th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Astronomer.

John Flamsteed was an English astronomer who is most famous for being the first Astronomer Royal of England.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, John Flamsteed ranks 70 out of 644. Before him are Pierre Méchain, Albert Marth, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Arthur B. McDonald, and Eugene Merle Shoemaker. After him are Jacques Cassini, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Antonio Abetti, James Bradley, Walter Baade, and Fritz Zwicky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, John Flamsteed ranks 7. Before him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian V of Denmark, Ismail Ibn Sharif, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, and Antoine Galland. After him are Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, Alexandre Exquemelin, and Charles Plumier. Among people deceased in 1719, John Flamsteed ranks 3. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, and Jean-Baptiste de La Salle. After him are Benjamin Hornigold, Michel Rolle, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Boris Sheremetev, Arnold Houbraken, and Joseph Addison.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Flamsteed ranks 649 out of 8,785. Before him are Philippa of England (1394), James Paul Moody (1887), James Dewar (1842), George Martin (1926), John Kendrew (1917), and Bobby Robson (1933). After him are Kevin Keegan (1951), Brian Eno (1948), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Richard Arkwright (1732), Frederick Forsyth (1938), and Wilkie Collins (1824).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, John Flamsteed ranks 8. Before him are Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Martin Ryle (1918), Arthur Eddington (1882), Fred Hoyle (1915), William Lassell (1799), and Antony Hewish (1924). After him are James Bradley (1693), Stephen Gray (1666), George Darwin (1845), Adelard of Bath (1075), William Huggins (1824), and Mary Somerville (1780).

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