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" 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... "
Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session - Page 5
by United States. Congress. Senate - 1878
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The Quarterly visitor, conducted by W. Passman, Volume 2

William Passman - 1815 - 328 pages
...Royal, was appointed by King Charles II. " to apply himself,, with all 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 much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation ;" these were the words of...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 7

John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 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...
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The Principles of Hydrostatics: Designed for the Use of Students in the ...

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...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 12

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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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected ..., Volume 4

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...
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An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer-royal: Compiled ...

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 55-56

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...
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