 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...  Journal - Page 311by Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891Full view - About this book
 | United States. Navy Dept - 1877 - 364 pages
...his warrant of office "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...fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitnde at sea for perfecting the art of navigation ;'' and the present Astronomer Royal, Sir George... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - 1878 - 632 pages
...duty of the incumbent 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,...at Sea for the perfecting the Art of Navigation." The reward above referred to was ultimately divided between an astronomer, Tobias Mayer, who made a... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1878 - 1086 pages
...hie warrant of office " 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...find out the so much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation "; and the present Astronomer Royal, Sir George B. Airy, has repeatedly... | |
 | 1878 - 702 pages
...his warrant of office "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...find out the so much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation ;" and the present Astronomer Royal, Sir George B. Airy, has repeatedly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 866 pages
...— ' forthwith to apply himself, with the most exact care and diligence, to the rectifying the table of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so аз to find out the so much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 pages
...Observator," and enjoining him " forthwith to apply himself with the utmost 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 Greenwich.] THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY. 213 the so-much-desired longitude of places, for... | |
 | George N. Lamphere - 1880 - 310 pages
...hundred times ; generally the standard stars are measured more than two hundred times. "This work, 'rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, for perfecting the art of navigation,' was included in the warrant of^ Charles II. for the erection... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1920 - 678 pages
...£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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | William Howarth (F.R.Hist.S.) - 1885 - 174 pages
...Observatory for the express purpose, as he warrant of the first Astronomer Koyal 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 perfecting the art of navigation." On the... | |
 | John Merrifield - 1886 - 376 pages
...AstronomerRoyal. The words of his commission were : " To apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens,...find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." LONGITUDE of a place is the angle at the axis of the earth between... | |
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