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The Principles of Hydrostatics: Designed for the Use of Students in the ... - Page 284
by Samuel Vince - 1820 - 151 pages
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The Elements of Astronomy: Or, The World as it Is, and as it Appears

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,...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation. It was not however till...
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the edinburgh review, of critical journal

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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

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...
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London Exhibited in 1852: Elucidating Its Natural and Physical ...

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...
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History of Physical Astronomy: From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the ...

Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 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."...
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The Pictorial Handbook of London Comprising Its Antiquities, Architecture ...

John Weale - 1854 - 1004 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...
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Annales de l'observatoire de Paris, Volume 1

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...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at the sea, for the perfection of the art of navigation. mouvements et la...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volume 2

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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The Archaeological mine, antiquarian nuggets relating to Kent by A.J. Dunkin

Archaeological mine - 1855 - 420 pages
...national 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" Flamstead...
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