Reverend Lewis Evans (1755-1827),British astronomer. Evans was a mathematics master at Woolwich Military Academy in London and a curate in the Anglican church. He published papers on several subjects including positional astronomy and solar eclipses. He built a private observatory on Woolwich Common,where he taught from 1799 to 1820. In 1821,he built another observatory next to his vicarage garden in Froxfield,Somerset,England,which incorporated a transit clock (an astrolabe) that calculated planetary movements | |
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