Canadian Journal of History, August 1st, 2000
Flamsteed's Stars: New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal (1646-1719), edited by Frances Willmoth. New York, Boydell Press, 1997. xiv, 271 pp. $81.00.
A first-rate sheaf of essays complementing each other, written with clarity by specialists, each providing different light upon the subject is the perennial ambition of editors of collected essays and is rarely achieved. Frances Willmoth is to be congratulated for extending a conference held in 1995 into productive conversations between its participants and for navigating these into a coherent collection. Few hist...
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