 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...  A Complete System of Astronomy - Page 499by Samuel Vince - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...observator, 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
...newly built 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... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 pages
...Greenwich Hill with 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...much desired Longitude at Sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation." Ever since then Greenwich has made it the main business to get the exact position... | |
 | 1927 - 430 pages
...Royal 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...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
...designed, like those of the Greenwich Observatory, as expressed in the royal warrant of the astronomer, " to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens...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... | |
 | 1850 - 628 pages
...of the Observatory : his title in the warrant is ' our astronomical observator;' and his duty is ' 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 perfecting the art of navigation.' The... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 674 pages
...investigation which appears to come within the terms of the Royal Warrant directing the Astronomer-Royal 'to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars.' "The appointment.of a clerk, which has presumably received the sanction of the Admiralty, will, when... | |
 | 1890 - 1156 pages
...Greenwich Observatory was founded to help to remedy these defects. The instruction to Flamsteed was to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars. Flamsteed made a large star catalogue, and many observations on the moon and other bodies, and the... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1874 - 932 pages
...designed, like those of the Greenwich Observatory, as expressed in tho royal warrant of tho astronomer, " to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stare, in order to find out the so-much desired longitude at sea, and perfect the art of navigation."... | |
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