Astronomers Royal
by Emily Winterburn
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Capturing the essence of often obsessive and extremely dedicated individuals, this lively book traces the professional and private lives of the Astronomers Royal, a role created by Charles II in 1675. Since the first, John Flamsteed, there have been 14 of them, each of whom has contributed significantly to science's understanding of stars, time, and space.Tags
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As the curator of astronomy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Emily Winterburn was responsible for one of the world's most important astronomy collections. She has written for the BBC and Astronomy Now magazine and has appeared on the BBC's What the Ancients Did for Us, the Channel 4 News, and In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg. She lives in show more Yorkshire, England, with her husband and two children and works at the Leeds University History of Science Museum. show less
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