 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
 | Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 278 pages
...in 1675. Down to this present day that warrant still makes it the duty of His Majesty's Astronomer " 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, in order to find out... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1907 - 810 pages
...Michaelmas last, to John Flamsted, MA, who has been appointed the King's 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.... | |
 | Lena Milman - 1908 - 510 pages
...extent, forthwith appointed Flamsteed " Astronomical Observator," a royal warrant '5* directing him 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."... | |
 | Charles Lane Poor - 1910 - 380 pages
...to the warrant of Charles II., "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 much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." The... | |
 | Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 526 pages
...royal warrant establishing the office of astronomer royal, and making it the duty of that official 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, in order to find out... | |
 | 1919 - 770 pages
...European astronomj' 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.... | |
 | 1920 - 956 pages
...March 4, 1675, "our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "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."... | |
 | 1920 - 522 pages
...March 4, 1675, 'our Astronomical Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being '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.'... | |
 | James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 396 pages
...to the warrant of Charles II, 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 much desired longitude of the places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.... | |
 | 1922 - 1378 pages
...warrant dated 4 March 1675, directing him ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care an 1 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.'... | |
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