 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
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1897 - 652 pages
...Arts, our astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to 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."... | |
 | Edward Walter Maunder - 1900 - 328 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 the so-much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation,... | |
 | 1901 - 538 pages
...to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the Rectifying the Tables of the Motion 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 the Art of Navigation" ; so anything outside of... | |
 | 1906 - 372 pages
...in 1685, the duty of the appointee was declared to be "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." 142 the tables of the moon,... | |
 | Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 274 pages
...Majesty's Astronomer " 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 the perfecting the art of navigation." The " so much desired... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1907 - 810 pages
...appointed the King's 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 the so much desired longitude of places, for the perfecting the art of navigation.... | |
 | Lena Milman - 1908 - 510 pages
...Astronomical Observator," a royal warrant '5* directing him 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."... | |
 | Charles Lane Poor - 1910 - 380 pages
...to the warrant of Charles II., "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to rectifying 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 perfecting the art of navigation." The... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 506 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."... | |
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