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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... "
A Complete System of Astronomy - Page 499
by Samuel Vince - 1814
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Winning Without Thinking

Nick Mordin - 2002 - 650 pages
...had been commissioned by King Charles II 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." Although...
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The American Review of Reviews, Volume 72

1925 - 708 pages
...astronomical observator. 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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation....
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Isis, Volumes 4-6

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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The Twentieth Century, Volume 98

1925 - 1090 pages
...astronomical observator, 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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation....
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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....
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