 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...  Our home islands [by T. Milner - Page 209by Thomas Milner - 1857Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 636 pages
...Flamsteed's commission, he was directed " 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, in order to lind the somuch desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." With what... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 pages
...declares 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...stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation." Right faithfully have the successive astronomers-royal... | |
 | 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 '...at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation.' The same object is indicated in the inscription, which still stan la near the old entrance of the Observatory,... | |
 | 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...at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." The same object is indicated in the inscription, which still stands near the old entrance of the Observatory,... | |
 | 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. ought to understand it, or I must be a dunce indeed....What excuse can I plead for troubling him with thes same object is indicated in the inscription, which still stands near the old entrance of the Observatory,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 378 pages
...his successors were that they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence 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, for the perfecting of the art of navigation.... | |
 | John Weale - 1852 - 966 pages
...observatory, for the express purpose, as the warrant of the first Astronomer Royal expressed it, " to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places...longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." Through the recommendation of Sir Jonas Moore, Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, who had taken particular... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 pages
...the duty of his office is " forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens,...stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." The warrant for the building of the Observatory... | |
 | John Weale - 1854 - 1004 pages
...observatory, for the express purpose, as the warrant of the first Astronomer Royal expressed it, " to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places...longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." Through the recommendation of Sir Jonas Moore, Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, who had taken particular... | |
 | Archaeological mine - 1855 - 420 pages
...observatory, for the express purpose, as the warrant of the first Astronomer Royal expressed it, "to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation" Flamstead was chosen to be the first Astronomer Royal. The situation fur the observatory was at first... | |
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