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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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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

1919 - 770 pages
...astronomj' 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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The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the ..., Volume 27

1920 - 514 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.'...
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The Influence of Oversea Expansion on England to 1700

James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 396 pages
...warrant of Charles II, 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 much desired longitude of the places for the perfecting of the art of navigation....
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Science, Volume 51

1920 - 956 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."...
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The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith, Volume 7

1922 - 1378 pages
...directing him ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care an 1 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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Revue Hydrographique, Volume 4

1927 - 610 pages
...Royal Observatory was founded at Greenwich in 1675 by Charles II with a view to " the Rectifying of the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens and the Places...order to find out the so much desired Longitude at Sea ". From that day it has been one of the foremost of the world's observatories, but it was long before...
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Isis, Volumes 4-6

George Sarton - 1924 - 692 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 Observatory, Volumes 48-49

1925 - 840 pages
...astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himielf with the most exact care and diiigenoe to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, go as to find out the so-much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation....
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The Observatory, Volume 50

1927 - 426 pages
...Royal Observatory was founded at Greenwich in 1675 by Charles II. with a view to " the Rectifying of the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens and the Places...to find out the so much desired Longitude at Sea." From that day it has been one of the foremost of the world's observatories, but it was long before...
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The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 13

Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - 1927 - 494 pages
...Royal Observatory was founded at Greenwich in 1675 by Charles II with a view to "the Rectifying of the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens and the Places...to find out the so much desired Longitude at Sea." From that day it has been one of the foremost of the world's observatories, but it was long before...
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