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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... "
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 Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

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."...
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The United States Government: Its Organization and Practical Workings ...

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...
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Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places ...

George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 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...
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Science, Volume 51

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."...
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Greenwich: past and present

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...
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A Treatise on Nautical Astronomy: For the Use of Students

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...places of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." LONGITUDE of a place is the...
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Nature, Volume 36

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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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 - 582 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 of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." I must now claim your...
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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 of the fixed stars, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." These instructions are...
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