 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...  Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Page xiiby Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robin Eagles - 2002 - 544 pages
...problem of locating longitude at sea. John Flamsteed is appointed the first astronomer-royal. fifi, I 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... | |
 | 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...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for perfecting the art of navigation."6 Seven... | |
 | 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...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.'... | |
 | Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...at sea, Charles II appointed John Flamsteed (1646-1719) as 'our astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars ... for the perfecting of the art of navigation'. Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, was to be... | |
 | Alan Gurney - 2007 - 338 pages
...Royal Observatory at Greenwich, took up residence in his Wren-designed house. His task was 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 of places for perfecting the art of navigation and... | |
 | 1927 - 430 pages
...the more readily. The Royal Observatory was founded at Greenwich in 1675 by Charles II. with a view to " the Rectifying of the Tables of the Motions of...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, but it was long before... | |
 | 1874 - 932 pages
...those of the Greenwich Observatory, as expressed in the royal warrant of the astronomer, " to rectify 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, and perfect the art of navigation." But the direct appliance of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1825 - 510 pages
...his successors were, ' That they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to verify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to find the so much desired longitude at sea for the perfecting of the art of navigation.' These instructions... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1919 - 1178 pages
...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.... | |
 | George Sarton - 1924 - 700 pages
...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... | |
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