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Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope - Page 99
by Fred Watson - 2004 - 342 pages
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 4

1835 - 904 pages
...right trusty and well-baloved counsellor, SirThomasChicheley, Knight, Master-General of our Ordnance." apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tablet of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the...
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An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer-royal: Compiled ...

Francis Baily - 1835 - 758 pages
...CHARLES REX. Whereas, we have appointed our trusty and well-beloved John Flamsteed, master of arts, our astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himself...the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out * Probably...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 pages
...him his ' Astronomical Observator,' with a yearly salary of one hundred pounds, and instructions ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 600 pages
...him his ' Astronomical Observator,' with a yearly salary of one hundred pounds, and instructions ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

1836 - 602 pages
...him his ' Astronomical Observator,' with a yearly salary of one hundred pounds, and instructions ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to And out the so-much...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 55-56

1836 - 1184 pages
...him his ' Astronomical Observator,' with a yearly salary of one hundred pounds, and instructions ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the...
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History of Physical Astronomy: From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the ...

Robert Grant - 1852 - 688 pages
...therein styled " our Astronomical Observator," and it is declared that the duty of his office is " forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the...
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Notes and Queries

1860 - 568 pages
...his late Majesty Astronomical Observator at Greenwich, with a Salary of 100A a year, and was required to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens and Places of the fixed Stars in order to find out the so...
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The English Cyclopaedia

1867 - 522 pages
...for the payment of his salary, he is styled " our Astronomical Observator ; " and he is directed " forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, go as to find out the...
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Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur ..., Volume 13

1876 - 322 pages
...is therein styled "our Astronomical Observator," and it is declared that the duty of the office is " forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the...
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