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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 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 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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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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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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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...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." NOTES ON A GREAT SILVER...
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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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Littell's Living Age, Volume 124

1875 - 880 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...
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volumes 9-10

Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1897 - 650 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."...
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Report of the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Observatory. 1899

United States. Navy Dept. Board of visitors to the United States naval observatory - 1899 - 92 pages
...of each astronomer royal: "To apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the motions of the heavens and the places of the, fixed stars, in order to find out the much-desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." The broad and sound organization...
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