 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...  Annales de l'observatoire de Paris - Page 2by Urbain J.-J Le Verrier - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Edward Walter Maunder - 1900 - 328 pages
...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 the so-much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation,... | |
 | 1901 - 540 pages
...to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the Rectifying the Tables of the Motion of the Heavens and the Places of the Fixed Stars,...order to find out the so much desired Longitude at Sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation" ; so anything outside of this immediate object was regarded... | |
 | Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 274 pages
...Majesty's Astronomer " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places...order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." The " so much desired longitude at sea " is, indeed,... | |
 | 1906 - 372 pages
...appointee was declared to be "to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea for the perfecting the art of navigation." 142 the tables of the moon, and a watchmaker who succeeded... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1907 - 810 pages
...to John Flamsted, the King's Astronomical Observator, who was to apply himself to the rectifying of 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 of places for perfecting the art of navigation (p.... | |
 | Lena Milman - 1908 - 520 pages
...warrant '56 directing him 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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.11... | |
 | Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 526 pages
...duty of that official to "apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places...order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." Without the chronometer the navigator could still obtain... | |
 | 1919 - 770 pages
...astronomj' of his day, nor understood that its purpose was practical and scientific ; for " the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars ... for the perfecting the art of navigation"; not for providing the means for astrological fortune-telling.... | |
 | 1920 - 956 pages
...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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
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