The year 1712 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis is first published, against his will and without credit by
Isaac Newton and
Edmond Halley with the influence of
John Arbuthnot. (A final version, approved by Flamsteed, is published posthumously in
1725.)
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