| Alan H. Cook - 1998 - 584 pages
...observer: ... forthwith 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 of the fixed stars so as to find out the so much-desired longitude of places for perfecting the art of navigation.' Flamsteed... | |
| Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 pages
...appointed with the charge: "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"... | |
| Christine L. Krueger - 2002 - 216 pages
...address the longitude question and was charged to apply "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 at Sea, for perfecting the art of Navigation."6 The... | |
| Robin Eagles - 2002 - 544 pages
...astronomer-royal. fifi, I 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.... | |
| Bruce D. Berkowitz - 2003 - 274 pages
...the Astronomer Royal, "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 of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for perfecting the art of navigation."6 Seven... | |
| Jack Lagan - 2003 - 368 pages
...following mission statement: '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 of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.'... | |
| Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...observator, forthwith 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 of the fixed stars ... for the perfecting of the art of navigation'. Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, was to be... | |
| Alan Gurney - 2007 - 338 pages
...newly built Royal Observatory at Greenwich, took up residence in his Wren-designed house. His task was 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 of places for perfecting the art of navigation and... | |
| 1874 - 932 pages
...designed, like those of the Greenwich Observatory, as expressed in the royal warrant of the astronomer, " to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens...to find out the so-much desired longitude at sea, and perfect the art of navigation." But the direct appliance of the navigator at sea to determine his... | |
| 1927 - 430 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 of the Fixed Stars, in 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,... | |
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