 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
 | 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 of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation ;" and the present Astronomer... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1878 - 1084 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 of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation "; and the present Astronomer... | |
 | 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 - 672 pages
...Our Astronomical 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
...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 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
...first AstronomerRoyal. The words of his commission were : " To apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." LONGITUDE of a place is the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 776 pages
...which appears to come within the terms of the Royal Warrant directing the Astronomer-Royal ' to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars.' "The appointment of a clerk, which has presumably received the sanction of the Admiralty, will, when... | |
 | William Cudworth (of Bradford, Eng.) - 1889 - 386 pages
...with Sir Jonas Moor, and appointed Flamsteed "Astronomical Observator," his mission being to " rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the much-desired longitude of places, for the purpose of perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
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