 | 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 money ; bricks from the... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1897 - 650 pages
...appointed our trusty and well-beloved JOHN FLAMSTEAD, Master of Arts, our astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care...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." The rest of the warrant... | |
 | 1875 - 880 pages
...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,...the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the longitudes of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." Flamsteed, a contemporary of Newton,... | |
 | Edward Walter Maunder - 1900 - 328 pages
...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,...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, Our will and pleasure... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1907 - 810 pages
...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...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. [SP Dom., Entry Book... | |
 | Lena Milman - 1908 - 510 pages
...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...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." For the last four or... | |
 | James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 396 pages
...prove.* Finally the Royal Observatory at Greenwich was started, and Flamsteed became on March 4, 1675 the first "Astronomer Royal," whose duty it was, according...stars, so as to find out the much desired longitude of the places for the perfecting of the art of navigation. 1 Sir Clements R. Markham, " The History of... | |
 | 1920 - 956 pages
...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...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." The observatory at Greenwich,... | |
 | 1920 - 514 pages
...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...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.' The observatory at Greenwich,... | |
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our astronomical 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... 
