Quotations

John Flamsteed


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I crave the liberty to conceal my name, not to suppress it. I have composed the letters of it written in Latin in this sentence:
In Mathesin a sole fundes.
(Translation: Go, you pour out learning from the Sun)
[Anagram from Latinized name, Iohannes Flamsteedius]
In a letter to Brouncker