 | 1845 - 636 pages
...furnishing it with accurate instruments. By the words of Flamsteed's commission, he was directed " to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence...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... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pages
...furnishing it with accurate instruments. By the words of Flamsteed's commission, he was directed ' to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to find the so-much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation.' With... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 516 pages
...first astronomer-royal also declares that his duty is "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of...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." Right faithfully... | |
 | 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 ' places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired ' longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation.' The same object is indicated... | |
 | 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. I have laid before the reader a history so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." The same object is indicated... | |
 | 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 of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." The same object is indicated... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 pages
...and it is declared that the duty of his office is " forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of...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." The warrant for the... | |
 | 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 of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." Through the recommendation... | |
 | 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 of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." Through the recommendation... | |
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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... 
