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Flamsteed House in Greenwich Park, London, late 17th century.
Flamsteed House in Greenwich Park, London, late 17th century. Flamsteed House was designed by Christopher Wren on the orders of Charles II as a royal observatory. At this time the problem of finding longitude at sea was unsolved and the observatory was built in the expectation that it would be possible to produce tables to enable mariners to plot their position. The first nation to solve the problem would have naval and mercantile advantage. John Flamsteed, after whom the building is named, was the first Astronomer Royal.
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HIP / Art Resource, NY
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17th century
Architecture
Astronomy
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
building
BUILDINGS
CHARLES II
CHRISTOPHER
CHRISTOPHER WREN
country
England
English
Engraving
Flamsteed
Flamsteed House
GREENWICH
Greenwich Park
JOHN
John Flamsteed
King Charles II
King of Great Britain and Ireland
LOCATION
London
LONGITUDE
Monochrome
Observatory
Oxford Science Archive
Park
Print Collector1
Royal Observatory
Science
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Sir Christopher
Sir Christopher Wren
TGN
wren