RECORDS 



OF 



GENERAL SCIENCE, 



DECEMBER, 1835. 



Article I. 



Life of the Rev. John Flamsteed, First Astronomer- Royal. 



Written by himself. 



( Continued from ;^. 341.) 



Finding that the edition of my works is stopt, and not 

 likely to proceed very speedily ; that, in the mean time, my 

 distempers increase, whereby I shall be disabled from carry- 

 ing them on as I intended ; and that, after all the pains I 

 have been at, and the expenses I have borne, it has been 

 suggested sometimes that I had little to publish, at others 

 that I was averse to the publishing of them : — to clear my- 

 self from these calumnies and aspersions, I intend (with 

 the assistance of that Good Providence, which I must ever 

 acknowledge to have directed all my endeavours) to give an 

 account of all my labours and studies, their beginning and 

 progress, with the helps and assistance I have either re- 

 ceived from others, or afforded them for carrying on of 

 theirs, that those who come after me may honestly and 

 sincerely prosecute these studies, depending on the favour 

 of God, and giving Him only all the praise. And if I begin 

 a little higher than I need, I hope it will not displease my 

 reader : for ingenious men are much delighted to know 

 both the beginnings and progresses of their studies, and the 



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