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THE tercentenary of the birth of the Rev, John Flamsteed, first Astronemer Royal and rector of Burstow, Surrey will be commemorated at a special evensong at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, August 18, in Burstow Church. The present rector, the Rev. A.Hack w* eon will conduct the service, after which the Astronemer Royal, Sir H. Spencer Jones, will give an 3 on Flamsteed's work. Representatives of the Roj l Astronomical Society and other bodies will be present. Flamsteed, who was born on August 19, 1646, at Denby near Derby, was made by Charles II “Our Astronomical Observator” in 1675, and Flamsteed House, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was built for his use. His salary was but small and he had to find his own instruments. His enthusiasm and industry, however, enabled him to overcome these and other difficulties, and he laid well and truly the foundation of the fame of the Observatory. In 1684 he had been given the living of Burstow, and at his death in 1719 he was buried in the chancel of the church. In 1887 the late J. J. Tustin erected the east window and a memorial tablet to his memory. The church is situated about three miles south-west of Horley, and the Reigate-Horley-East Grinstead bus, No. 424, gives a half-hourly service to within half a mile of it.
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Tercentenary of Flamsteed. Nature 158, 192 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158192d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158192d0