books.google.co.uk - Professor Eric Forbes left behind at his death an important collection of the letters of John Flamsteed (1646-1719), First Astronomer Royal. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars all over...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Correspondence_of_John_Flamsteed_the.html?id=Hrm9aCi48CYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal