 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 493by Samuel Vince - 1814Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 636 pages
...commission, he was directed " to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to lind the somuch desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." With what success... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 378 pages
...had tables of the places of the fixed stars, and of the moon's motions, the longitude might be found. Upon this Mr. Flamstead was appointed astronomer royal,...sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation. It was not however till after Mr. Flarnstead's death that the tables of the moon's motions were corrected,... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...charge 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... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...Baily's Life, pp. 87-8 ; but particularly Flamsteed's letter to Snerbourne, in the same work, p. 125. 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...Baily's Life, pp. 37-8 ; but particularly Flamsteed'a letter to SliiTbcnii nr, in the same work, p. 126. 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... | |
 | John Weale - 1852 - 966 pages
...observatory, for the express purpose, as the warrant of the first Astronomer Royal 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 perfecting the art of navigation." Through... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 688 pages
...his office is " 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."... | |
 | John Weale - 1854 - 1006 pages
...observatory, for the express purpose, as the warrant of the first Astronomer Royal 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 perfecting the art of navigation." Through... | |
 | Urbain J.-J Le Verrier - 1855 - 454 pages
...des mouvements de ces corps; la découverte de mondes encore inconnus et celle des comètes; les (*) That they should apply themselves with the utmost...order to find out the so much desired longitude at the sea, for the perfection of the art of navigation. mouvements et la nature tics étoiles; les nébuleuses... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...salary, the astronomical observator, as he was then called, was commanded " to apply himself forthwith, with the utmost care and diligence, to rectify the...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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