1. Flamsteed, John. 1646–1719. was appointed ‘astronomical observator’ by a royal warrant dated 4th March, 1675, which directed him to lind ‘the so-much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation’. In 1676 he took up residence in a new observatory in Greenwich Park, built to a design of Sir Christopher Wren, and thereafter devoted his rile to the compilation of an accurate star catalogue. Although this work was largely accomplished at his own expense and using his own instruments, there was official disapproval of his painstaking approach and reluctance to publish his results prematurely. The consequence was that publication was taken over by a committee and, in 1712, an inaccurate version of theHistoria Coelestisappeared under the editorship of Edmond Halley, with the assistance of Sir Isaac Newton. On the death of Queen Anne, and subsequent change of Government from Tory to Whig in 1714, Flamsteed was able to recover 300 of the 400 copies of the spurious edition. Flamsteed's ownHistoria Coelestis Britannicawas finally published posthumously, in 1725, thanks to the efforts of his wife, and his assistants Joseph Crosthwait and Abraham Sharp
2. Baily, F. 1835.An Account of the Revd, xiv–xv. London: John Flamsteed.
3. Thoughts on Ethics in Archival Conservation
4. There is increasing recognition of the value of computer technology as a means of recording condition surveys and keeping conservation records. Already, on a small scale, a general record of condition of rare books in the RGO Airy collection has been transferred to data base.
5. The Murray Pease Report