 | Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - 1927 - 494 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... | |
 | Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - 1995 - 1010 pages
...in contrast, was required by his warrant of appointment 'forthwith to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of...motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars'3, and was subsequently provided with sufficient practical means to carry out this instruction.... | |
 | Alan H. Cook - 1998 - 584 pages
...of Flamsteed's abilities from Moore and he immediately appointed him his astronomical observer: ... forthwith 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 so as to find out the... | |
 | Michael Hoskin - 1999 - 384 pages
...1725, in fulfilment of the royal warrant issued half a century before, requiring the Astronomer Royal 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying . . . the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 pages
...Greenwich,15 the first astronomer royal, John Flamsteed (1646-1719), was appointed with the charge: "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... | |
 | Bruce D. Berkowitz - 2003 - 274 pages
...II founded the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Charles instructed John Flamsteed, the Astronomer Royal, "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, so as to find out the... | |
 | Jack Lagan - 2003 - 368 pages
...Charles II. He provided his first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, with the following mission statement: '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, so as to find out the... | |
 | Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...longitude at sea, Charles II appointed John Flamsteed (1646-1719) as 'our astronomical observator, forthwith 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 ... for the perfecting... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 pages
...induced Charles II. in a serious moment to set the Rev. John Flamsteed on Greenwich Hill with injunctions to " apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...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."... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1919 - 1178 pages
...European astronomy 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.... | |
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Royal was established in 1765, the duty of the incumbent was declared to be " 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 in order to find out the... 
