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Historically,
the British may not seem to picture out King Charles II as an ideal king, but nevertheless he played a vital
role in the scientific development of Britain- and the world, in the late 1600s- one aspect being primarily in his quest for
the updating of the maps of the heavens. That part of King Charles didn’t
have much to do with modern Astronomy, but England had always been a seafaring
nation, and British sailors then demanded for new, accurate, and better celestial maps for maritime navigation.
Having been a patron of the Arts and Sciences himself, King Charles-II contributed to the
founding of the Royal Society which counted in its members, among others: Robert Boyle,
Robert Hooke, and of course- the great Sir Isaac Newton.
This move of the King’s order to “chart the heavens anew” invariably led to the establishment and
founding of the Greenwich Observatory in 1675, and appointed John Flamsteed as the first
Astronomer Royal in March of that year.
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