our astronomical 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 Observatory - Page 771892Full 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 so-much-desired... | |
| 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...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out * Probably the letter alluded to in the note in page 33. the so much-desired longitude... | |
| 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...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation,'... | |
| 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...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation,'... | |
| 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...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation,1... | |
| 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...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to And out the so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation,'... | |
| Francis Baily - 1837 - 96 pages
...Observatory at Greenwich, with a salary ol " £100 a year, and directed to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence " to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavenly bodies and places " of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude... | |
| charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...Observatory: his title in the warrant is 'our astronomical observator;' and his duty is 'to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the ' places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired ' longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation.' The... | |
| 1850 - 604 pages
...Baily's Life, pp. 87-8 ; but particularly Flamsteed's letter to Snerbourne, in the same work, p. 125. tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." The... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...Baily's Life, pp. 37-8 ; but particularly Flamsteed'a letter to SliiTbcnii nr, in the same work, p. 126. tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." The... | |
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