 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 Canadian Record of Science - Page 4031893Full view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 pages
...The royal warrant appointing the first astronomer-royal also declares that his duty is ''forthwith 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."... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1892 - 668 pages
...with the duties of the Astronomer Royal as specified in the Royal Warrant, by which he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars. . . ." It has been above remarked that after the establishment of order and system in the observatory,... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1892 - 676 pages
...with the duties of the Astronomer Royal as specified in the Royal Warrant, by which he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and tho places of the fixed stars. . . ." It has been above remarked that after the establishment of order... | |
 | Frederick James Britten - 1894 - 416 pages
...his untimely decease. In 1675, Greenwich Observatory was founded. Flamsteed was instructed to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars. He made a large star catalogue, and many obversations on the moon and other bodies, and the results... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1875 - 880 pages
...tracked 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, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the longitudes of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." Flamsteed, a... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1897 - 650 pages
...Arts, our astronomical observator, 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 so much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | Edward Walter Maunder - 1900 - 328 pages
...our trusty and well-beloved John Flamsteed, Master of Arts, our astronomical observator, forthwith 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 the art of navigation,... | |
 | 1901 - 540 pages
...fact is, or was, though, as the first " King's Astronomer," Ilamsteed was commanded by Charles II. " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the Rectifying the Tables of the Motion of the Heavens and the Places of the Fixed Stars, in order to find out the so much desired Longitude... | |
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