 Royal was established in 1765, the duty of the incumbent was declared to be " 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 in order to find out the...  Astronomy: A Popular Handbook - Page 157by Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pages
...successors were, " that they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence, to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the Art of Navigation." 188. hi the year 17H,thc flrstixli. parliament offered a reward lor the... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1811 - 260 pages
...successors were, " That they should apply themselves with die utmost care and diligence to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation." 378. In ihe year 1714, the British parliament offered a reward for the discovery... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1814 - 602 pages
...successors were, " that they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to rectify the Tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation." 736. In the year 1714, the British Parliament offered a reward for the discovery... | |
 | William Passman - 1815 - 328 pages
...the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation ;" these were the words of his commission, which have been continued to his successors. During Mr.... | |
 | Robert Woodhouse - 1821 - 1068 pages
...Royal of Greenwich enjoin him, 'to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens, and the...at sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation.' As the latter of these Institutions may, in future times, become one not merely of local interest,... | |
 | Robert Woodhouse - 1821 - 922 pages
...Royal of Greenwich enjoin him, 'to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens, and the...at sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation." As the latter of these Institutions may, in future times, become one not merely of local interest,... | |
 | John Vose - 1827 - 262 pages
...and his successors, " That they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation." The British parliament, in the year 1714, offered a reward for the discovery... | |
 | John Vose - 1834 - 230 pages
...and his successors, " that they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, -and the...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation." In 1714, the British parliament offered £10,000 for the discovery of longitude,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 378 pages
...his successors were that they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation. It was not however till after Mr. Flarnstead's death that the tables of the... | |
 | 1860 - 568 pages
...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...Longitude at Sea for the perfecting the art of Navigation. " That the said Dr. Bradley did continue to receive the said yearly Salary, being the same which had... | |
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