# Historia Coelestis is printed from Flamsteed's observations under Newton's pressure

Date: 1712

## The fact

In 1712 a Historia Coelestis drawn from John Flamsteed's Greenwich observations was printed under Halley's name after Newton, as President, pressed an edition Flamsteed did not accept as finished. Isaac Newton's documented role is: As PRS and a referee of the Greenwich file, Newton pushed an edition Flamsteed rejected as unfinished. Flamsteed observed; Halley edited the 1712 book.

## Context

Prince George had funded. Flamsteed delayed. Newton wanted data for the lunar theory. Halley edited. Sharing the 1712 book with Halley is required. Flamsteed later burned copies. The setting of Historia Coelestis is printed from Flamsteed's observations under Newton's pressure is the public file around 1712-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Historia Coelestis is printed from Flamsteed's observations under Newton's pressure. Naming Isaac Newton does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1712-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica independently narrates the 1712 catalog fight. Royal Society heritage locates the Greenwich file. Official carrier: Royal Society — Greenwich and Historia Coelestis heritage (https://royalsociety.org/; The Royal Society). Independent carrier: Britannica — Flamsteed, Newton, and the 1712 Historia Coelestis (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Newton; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Royal Society — Greenwich and Historia Coelestis heritage (https://royalsociety.org/; The Royal Society).

## Significance

Worsening personal-data and scientific-credit path: observations published against the observer's control. Complex. High confidence on the 1712 book; medium on modern 'data protection' analogy — the mechanism is control of a scientific record. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

## What is established and what is not

Established: the 1712 Historia Coelestis was printed against Flamsteed's wishes. Not established: a unique later catalog-error coefficient. Established: a sourced public record of Historia Coelestis is printed from Flamsteed's observations under Newton's pressure under 1712-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat this as Leibniz. Do not treat Flamsteed's later 1725 edition as Newton's act. Mixed effects of Historia Coelestis is printed from Flamsteed's observations under Newton's pressure are separate paths.

The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Isaac Newton: https://factrail.ai/people/isaac-newton

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Newton
- https://royalsociety.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/newton-flamsteed-1712