| 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
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue ; said, with some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen ;" and further (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations... | |
| 1835 - 502 pages
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue ; said, with some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen ;" and further, (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations... | |
| Francis Baily - 1835 - 758 pages
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue ; said, with some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined and corrected, for the " use of his seamen ;" and further, (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations... | |
| 1836 - 432 pages
...existing tables of the moon's motion. The king, startled at the assertion, said with some warmth, " he must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected for the use of his seamen." And on the necessity of accurate observations for this purpose being further intimated,... | |
| 1836 - 602 pages
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue ; said, with some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen ;" and further (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations... | |
| 1836 - 1184 pages
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false iu the catalogue ; said, \vith some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen ;" and further (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations... | |
| 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
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue ; said, with some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen ;" and further (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 650 pages
...assertion of the fixed stars ' places being false in the catalogue, and said with some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen.'" Tlii> was the immediate occasion of building Greenwich Observatory, and placing Flamsteed... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 pages
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue 45 ; said with some vehemence, ' he must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen;' and, further, (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 pages
...assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue45; said with some vehemence, ' he must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen ;' and, further, (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of... | |
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