 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
 | Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 526 pages
...duty of that official 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." Without the chronometer... | |
 | 1893 - 666 pages
...establishment of the office in 1675, 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 of the art of navigation." NOTES ON A GREAT SILVER... | |
 | 1919 - 766 pages
...European astronomj' of his day, nor understood that its purpose was practical and scientific ; for " the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars ... for the perfecting the art of navigation"; not for providing the means for astrological fortune-telling.... | |
 | 1920 - 514 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.'... | |
 | 1920 - 956 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."... | |
 | James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 396 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 the places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.... | |
 | 1922 - 1382 pages
...warrant dated 4 March 1675, directing him ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care an 1 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.'... | |
 | 1927 - 602 pages
...Royal Observatory was founded at Greenwich in 1675 by Charles II with a view 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 ". From that day it has been one of the foremost of the world's observatories,... | |
 | George Sarton - 1924 - 694 pages
...to develop the first method which led to the creation, in 1675, of the Greenwich Observatory (« for rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars so as to find the so-much desired longitude of places for perfecting the art of navigation >). The... | |
 | 1925 - 840 pages
...Arts, our astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himielf with the most exact care and diiigenoe to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, go as to find out the so-much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.... | |
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