References for John Flamsteed

1. V E Thoren, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

3. D Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude (Oxford, 1980).

Articles:

4. E G Forbes, Early astronomical researches of John Flamsteed, J. Hist. Astronom. 7 (2) (1976), 124-138.
5. N Kollerstrom and B D Yallop, Flamsteed's lunar data, 1692-95, sent to Newton, J. Hist. Astronom. 26 (3) (1995), 237-246.
6. K M Pedersen, Römer, Flamsteed, and the search for a stellar parallax, Vistas Astronom. 20 (1-2) (1976), 165-169.
7. D T Whiteside, Kepler, Newton and Flamsteed on refraction through a 'regular aire' : the mathematical and the practical, Centaurus 24 (1980), 288-315.
8. M E W Williams, Flamsteed's alleged measurement of annual parallax for the Pole Star, J. Hist. Astronom. 10 (2) (1979), 102-116.

April 1997