 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 the so much desired...  The Quarterly visitor, conducted by W. Passman - Page 53edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | John Vose - 1827 - 262 pages
...and his successors, " 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." The British parliament,... | |
 | 1835 - 910 pages
...of our Ordnance." apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tablet 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 ; our... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1861 - 604 pages
...founder and those vrho inaugurated its first proceedings. The duty assigned to it was " 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 perfecting the art of navigation ;" and gloriously has it executed... | |
 | John Vose - 1834 - 230 pages
...and his successors, " 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." In 1714, the British... | |
 | Francis Baily - 1835 - 770 pages
...master of 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 * Probably the letter alluded to in the note in page 33. the so much-desired longitude... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...salary of one hundred pounds, and instructions ' 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 Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 pages
...salary of one hundred pounds, and instructions ' 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 And out the so-much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation,'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 pages
...salary of one hundred pounds, and instructions ' 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,'... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pages
...By the words of Flamsteed's commission, he was directed ' to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions...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 what success this... | |
 | 1845 - 636 pages
...By the words of Flamsteed's commission, he was directed " to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions...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 success... | |
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