 Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being '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 so much desired...  The Quarterly visitor, conducted by W. Passman - Page 53edited by - 1815Full 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...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the Art of Navigation." 188. hi the year 17H,thc... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 600 pages
...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 so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation,1... | |
 | 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...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation." 378. In ihe year 1714,... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1814
...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...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation." 736. In the year 1714,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 736 pages
...command, tbat he should apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to tiie rectifying the table of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to rind out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation. And to the fidelity... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1820 - 472 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...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so-much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation." (378.) In the year... | |
 | Robert Woodhouse - 1821 - 1070 pages
...that appoints the Astronomer Royal of Greenwich enjoin him, 'to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the Tables of the Motions...places of the Fixed Stars, in order to find out the so much desired Longitude at sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation.' As the latter of these... | |
 | Robert Woodhouse - 1821 - 922 pages
...that appoints the Astronomer Royal of Greenwich enjoin him, 'to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the Tables of the Motions...places of the Fixed Stars, in order to find out the so much desired Longitude at sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation." As the latter of these... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...command that he should apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the table of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so-much-admired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation. It was in the year 1714 that... | |
 | 1825 - 470 pages
...were commanded, " That they should apply themselves, with the utmost care and diligence, to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so-much desired lo'ngitude at sea, for the perfection of the art of navigation." And a series of men,... | |
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