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Gaius, Roman general, was tribune in 232 B.c., pretor in 227, consul in 223, censor in 220, and again consul in 217. He had a triumph for defeating the Insubrian Gauls; and during his censorship (220 B.c.) he constructed the Flam in i an Way and built a circus. In 217 he was sent against Hannibal into Etruria, and was defeated and killed in the battle of the Trasimene Lake (23rd June). 465 See ee ee ee ee FLAM MARION FLAM MARION, Camille, French astronomer, born at Montigny-le-Roi (Haute-Marne) on 26th Feb., 1842. He first studied theology at Langres, which perhaps accounts for the mysticism pervading some of his works. In 1858 he came to Paris, entered the Observatory as a student, and was transferred in 1862 to the Bureau des Longitudes. He made several balloon ascents for the purpose of studying the upper regions of the atmosphere. For some time he edited the Cosmos and the scientific columns of the 4 Flamingoes (Pheenicoptérus rose us) Siécle, and in 1882 he founded the monthly magazine L’Asironomie. Flam marion also started the French Astronomical Society in 1887, and several other societies beth in France and in the United States. He is one of the most imaginative and popular writers on astronomy. His works include: Les Mondes i mag in a ires et les mondes réels (1864), La Plural ité des mondes habites (1862), Diew dans la nature (1866), Les Merveilles Célestes (1865), Voyages <Aériens (1868), His to ire du ciel (1872), L’? Atmosphere (1872), Les Terres du ciel (1884), Le Monde avant la création de Vhomme (1886), Uranie (1892), La Fin du monde (1893), L’inconnu et les problémes psychiques (1900). He died in June, 1925. 469 FLAMMENWERFER 465 FLANNELETT#E FLAMMENWERFER. Sce FLAME | longed battles. Ypres especially, a3 THROWERS. being the key to the Channel Ports, FLAMSTEED, John, the first Astronomer Royal of England, was born 1646, died 1719. He graduated at Cambridge in 1674, took orders in the Church, but devoted himself chieily to mathematical and astronomical pursuits. He was appointed by Charles II astronomical observator to the king, and carried on his observations at the Queen’s House at Green wich, until the observatory was built for him in 1676. Here he pa ed his life, formed the first trustworthy catalogue of fixed stars, and supplied the lunar observations by means of which Newton verified his lunar theory. His great work Hist or i a Celesiis Britannica was finished in 1723. In 1832 the discovery of a collection of his letters disclosed a protracted quarrel between him and Newton.