 | Francis Baily - 1835 - 770 pages
...of the Observatory. A Frenchman, that called himself Le Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady,...Christopher Wren, Sir Charles Scarborough, Sir Jonas Moore, Col. Titus, Dr. Pell, Sir Robert Murray, Mr. Hook, and some other ingenious gentlemen about the town... | |
 | 1835 - 502 pages
...of the Observatory. A Frenchman that called himself Le Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady,...then in favour at Court, proposed no less than the discoyery of the Longitude : and had procured a kind of Commission from the King, to the Lord Brouncker,... | |
 | 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
...of the observatory. A Frenchman, that called himself Le Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady*...Christopher Wren, Sir Charles Scarborough, Sir Jonas Moore, Colonel Titus, Dr. Pell, Sir Robert Murray, Mr. Hook, and some other ingenious gentlemen about the... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...of the observatory. A Frenchman, that called himself Le Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady*...Christopher Wren, Sir Charles Scarborough, Sir Jonas Moore, Colonel Titus, Dr. Pell, Sir Robert Murray, Mr. Hook, and some other ingenious gentlemen about the... | |
 | 1836 - 602 pages
...of the observatory. A Frenchman, that called himself Le Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady*...Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Charles Scarborough, Sir J onas Moore, Colonel Titus, l3r. Pell, Sir Robert Murray, Mr. Hook, and some other ingenious gentlemen... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 pages
...Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in Astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady44, then in favour at Court, proposed no less than the...Christopher Wren, Sir Charles Scarborough, Sir Jonas Moore, Col. Titus, Dr. Pell, Sir Robert Moray, Mr. Hooke, and some other ingenious gentlemen about the town... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 pages
...Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in Astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady 44 , then in favour at Court, proposed no less than the...Christopher Wren, Sir Charles Scarborough, Sir Jonas Moore, Col. Titus, Dr. Pell, Sir Robert Moray, Mr. Hooke, and some other ingenious gentlemen about the town... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...skill in astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady (the Duchess of Portsmouth) then in fashion nscious tread. Different from Sir C. Wren, Sir Charles Scarborough, Sir Jonas Moore, Col. Titus, Dr. Pell, Sir Robert Moray, Dr.... | |
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Easter, an accident happened that hastened, if it did not occasion, the building of the observatory. A Frenchman, that called himself Le Sieur de St. Pierre, having some small skill in astronomy, and made an interest with a French lady* then in favour... 