 | Robin Eagles - 2002 - 544 pages
...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 so much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.... | |
 | Christine L. Krueger - 2002 - 216 pages
...longitude question and was charged to apply "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 at Sea, for perfecting the art of Navigation."6 The... | |
 | Bruce D. Berkowitz - 2003 - 274 pages
...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 so much desired longitude of places for perfecting the art of navigation."6 Seven... | |
 | Jack Lagan - 2003 - 368 pages
...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 so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.'... | |
 | Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...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 of the art of navigation'. Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, was to be... | |
 | Alan Gurney - 2007 - 338 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 pages
...injunctions 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 so much desired Longitude at Sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation." Ever since then Greenwich... | |
 | 1874 - 932 pages
...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... | |
 | 1927 - 430 pages
...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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1825 - 510 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
