 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
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891 - 582 pages
...Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence in the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." I must now claim your... | |
 | 1892 - 544 pages
...Itoyal Sign Manual. By this warrant he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact 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 the perfecting the art of navigation." These instructions are... | |
 | 1892 - 498 pages
...the Eoyal Sign Manual. By this warrant he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact 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 the perfecting the art of navigation." These instructions are... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 pages
...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 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 of the art of navigation."... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 508 pages
...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 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 of the art of navigation."... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1892 - 678 pages
...specified in the Royal Warrant, by which he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and tho places of the fixed stars. . . ." It has been above remarked that after the establishment of order... | |
 | 1893 - 662 pages
...in 1675, declared to be " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifiying 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." NOTES ON A GREAT SILVER... | |
 | Frederick James Britten - 1894 - 416 pages
...his untimely decease. In 1675, Greenwich Observatory was founded. Flamsteed was instructed to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars. He made a large star catalogue, and many obversations on the moon and other bodies, and the results... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pages
...building be erected suitable for taking proper observations, or, as the warrant 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 this purpose the king gave .£500 in... | |
 | 1875 - 876 pages
...tracked and ascertained. The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was built in the reign of Charles II. " for the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the longitudes of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." Flamsteed, a... | |
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