 | United States. Navy Dept - 1877 - 364 pages
...the highest astronomical results and the improvement of navigation. In England, the Astronomer Royal is directed by his warrant of office "to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, in order... | |
 | 1878 - 702 pages
...the highest astronomical results and the improvement of navigation. In England, the Astronomer Royal is directed by his warrant of office "to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, in order... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1878 - 1086 pages
...astronomical results and ihe improvement of navigation. In England, the Astronomer Royal is directed by hie warrant of office " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, in order... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1893 - 656 pages
...appointing him "Our Astronomical Observator," and enjoining him "forthwith to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to rectifying the tables of the motions of the heav and the places of the fixed Gweflwicn. ΠΆ THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY. 213 the so-much-desired longitude... | |
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... these statements to the attention of the department and of Congress. The work of this observatory, like that of the Greenwich Observatory, England, has always contemplated the direct relation between the highest astronomical results and the improvement... 