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Astronomers Royal through the Ages
Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS
In 1675, King Charles II caused the Royal Greenwich Observatory to be founded for the purpose of determining longitude at sea by 'the astronomical method'. This talk will look at the work of some of the interesting Astronomers Royal, who for centuries ran the observatory.