 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
 | Simon Newcomb - 1878 - 616 pages
...incumbent was declared to be " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens, and the...so much desired Longitude at Sea for the perfecting the Art of Navigation." The reward above referred to was ultimately divided between an astronomer,... | |
 | 1878 - 702 pages
...his warrant of office "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...find out the so much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation ;" and the present Astronomer Royal, Sir George B. Airy, has repeatedly... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1878 - 1084 pages
...hie warrant of office " 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...find out the so much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation "; and the present Astronomer Royal, Sir George B. Airy, has repeatedly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 866 pages
...— ' forthwith to apply himself, with the most exact care and diligence, to the rectifying the table of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so аз to find out the so much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | George N. Lamphere - 1880 - 310 pages
...times ; generally the standard stars are measured more than two hundred times. "This work, 'rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, for perfecting the art of navigation,' was included in the warrant of^ Charles II. for the erection... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 672 pages
...and enjoining him " forthwith 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, so as to find out Greenwich.] THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY. 213 the so-much-desired longitude of places, for... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1920 - 678 pages
...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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | William Howarth (F.R.Hist.S.) - 1885 - 174 pages
...an Observatory for the express purpose, as he warrant of the first Astronomer Koyal 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." On the... | |
 | John Merrifield - 1886 - 376 pages
...words of his commission were : " To apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." LONGITUDE of a place is the angle at the axis of the earth between... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 776 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... | |
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