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Flamsteed’s Correspondence

A considerable amount of Flamsteed’s Correspondence still survives scattered across a number of institutions and individuals around the world. Collected together by Eric Forbes and transcribed and annotated by Lesley Murdin and Frances Willmoth, it was published in three volumes between 1995 and 2002. Between them, the three volumes run to over 3000 pages. Each volume begins with an introduction which sets the context and has an appendix containing related documents such as the founding Warrants, accounts and other related material as well as a comprehensive index.

The volumes have been digitised by Google, but are available in preview only. The Google search function however allows the whole of each volume to be searched for individual words or names – an invaluable aid to tracking down all references rather than just those listed in the index. The three volumes with links to Google Books are:

The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal: Volume 1: 1666–1682 (Institute of Physics Publishing, 1995)

The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal: Volume 2: 1682–1703 (Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997)

The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer Royal: Volume 3: 1703–1719 (Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997)