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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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Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp: The Yorkshire Mathematician and ...

William Cudworth (of Bradford, Eng.) - 1889 - 396 pages
...conferred with Sir Jonas Moor, and appointed Flamsteed "Astronomical Observator," his mission being to "rectify 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 purpose of perfecting the art of navigation."...
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Journal, Volume 10

Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891 - 580 pages
...first Astronomer Royal, " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence in 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." I must now claim your attention for a few minutes while I explain, very briefly,...
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The Observatory, Volume 15

1892 - 496 pages
...warrant he is directed " 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." These instructions are now a little out of date, for though they satisfy the...
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The Observatory, Volume 15

1892 - 544 pages
...warrant he is directed " 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." These instructions are now a little out of date, for though they satisfy the...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 41

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 pages
...that his duty 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 of the art of navigation."...
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Proceedings, Volume 41

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 508 pages
...that his duty 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 of the art of navigation."...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 41

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 516 pages
...that his duty 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 of the art of navigation."...
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The Canadian Record of Science, Volume 5

1893 - 662 pages
...in 1675, declared to be " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifiying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...sea for the perfecting of the art of navigation." NOTES ON A GREAT SILVER CAMP. By WA CARLYLE, Ma.E., of McGill University. High up on the Mosquito Range...
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Former Clock & Watchmakers and Their Work: Including an Account of the ...

Frederick James Britten - 1894 - 416 pages
...just before his untimely decease. In 1675, Greenwich Observatory was founded. Flamsteed was instructed to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars. He made a large star catalogue, and many obversations on the moon and other bodies, and the results...
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Self Culture, Volume 10

1900 - 728 pages
...that a building be erected suitable for taking proper observations, or, as the warrant 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 this purpose the king gave .£500 in...
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