 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
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1897 - 652 pages
...astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himself with 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 of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | 1875 - 876 pages
...ascertained. The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was built in the reign of Charles II. " for the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the longitudes of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." Flamsteed, a... | |
 | Edward Walter Maunder - 1900 - 328 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,... | |
 | 1901 - 538 pages
...to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the Rectifying the Tables of the Motion of the Heavens and the Places of the Fixed Stars,...much desired Longitude at Sea, for the perfecting the Art of Navigation" ; so anything outside of this immediate object was regarded by Airy as an unwarrantable... | |
 | Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 274 pages
...Majesty's Astronomer " 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...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." The " so much desired longitude at sea " is, indeed, a vastly important thing... | |
 | 1906 - 372 pages
...appointee 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." 142 the tables of the moon, and a watchmaker who succeeded in making important... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1907 - 810 pages
...to John Flamsted, the King's Astronomical Observator, who was to apply himself to the rectifying of 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 (p.... | |
 | Lena Milman - 1908 - 520 pages
...warrant '56 directing him 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.11... | |
 | Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 526 pages
...duty of that official 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...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." Without the chronometer the navigator could still obtain his local time, but... | |
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