 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...  Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy - Page 310by United States. Navy Dept - 1877Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Baily - 1835 - 758 pages
...our trusty and well-beloved John Flamsteed, master of arts, our astronomical observator, 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 * Probably... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 1836 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory - 1867 - 732 pages
...micrometer. ¿ш EXPLANATION OF THE SEAL OF THE Ü. S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY. The Astronomer Royal, at Greenwich, is directed by his warrant of office "to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to rectifying the tables of the motions of the Heavens, and the places of the Fixed Stars, in order to... | |
 | 1867 - 522 pages
...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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