| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 pages
...that his duty 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 so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation."... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 508 pages
...that his duty 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 so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation."... | |
| 1893 - 662 pages
...in 1675, declared to be " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifiying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...find out the so much desired longitude at sea for the perfecting of the art of navigation." NOTES ON A GREAT SILVER CAMP. By WA CARLYLE, Ma.E., of McGill... | |
| Frederick James Britten - 1894 - 416 pages
...just before his untimely decease. In 1675, Greenwich Observatory was founded. Flamsteed was instructed to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars. He made a large star catalogue, and many obversations on the moon and other bodies, and the results... | |
| 1900 - 728 pages
...that a building be erected suitable for taking proper observations, or, as the warrant expressed it, " 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 this purpose the king gave .£500 in... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1897 - 650 pages
...astronomical observator, forthwith 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, so as to find out the so much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
| 1875 - 880 pages
...ascertained. The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was built in the reign of Charles II. " for the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the longitudes of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." Flamsteed, a... | |
| 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,...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 by... | |
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