BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Cataloging the Sky: John Flamsteed and the Royal Greenwich Observatory PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1948486_0 SUMMARY:Cataloging the Sky: John Flamsteed and the Royal Greenwich Observatory DESCRIPTION:

In celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th anniversary, the work on display is one of the few surviving copies of a pirated edition of star charts produced by the observatory’s inaugural Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, without his permission. Outraged, the latter unrelentingly hunted down every copy of the work he could, and ultimately burned some 300 of the 400 printed.

LOCATION:History of Ideas Case, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20260101T050000Z DTEND:20260425T035900Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR