 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
 | David Brewster - 2004 - 580 pages
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 | Robert Chambers - 2004 - 428 pages
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 | Alan Gurney - 2007 - 338 pages
...Royal Observatory at Greenwich, took up residence in his Wren-designed house. His task was 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 of places for perfecting the art of navigation and... | |
 | Lewis Boss - 2008 - 72 pages
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 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 pages
...Flamsteed on Greenwich Hill with injunctions 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." Ever since then Greenwich has made it the main business to get the exact position of the stars to the... | |
 | 1927 - 430 pages
...Royal Observatory was founded at Greenwich in 1675 by Charles II. with a view to " the Rectifying of the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens and the Places...to find out the so much desired Longitude at Sea." From that day it has been one of the foremost of the world's observatories, but it was long before... | |
 | 1968 - 120 pages
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 | 1874 - 932 pages
...those of the Greenwich Observatory, as expressed in the royal warrant of the astronomer, " to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so-much desired longitude at sea, and perfect the art of navigation." But the direct appliance of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1825 - 510 pages
...his successors were, ' That they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to verify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to find the so much desired longitude at sea for the perfecting of the art of navigation.' These instructions... | |
 | 1925 - 1090 pages
...arts, our 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.... | |
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