 | Natural history - 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."... | |
 | Frederick James Britten - Technology & Engineering - 1894 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1875 - 880 pages
...tracked and 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,...the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the longitudes of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." Flamsteed, a contemporary of Newton,... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Astronomy - 1897 - 650 pages
...Arts, our astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens,...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." The rest of the warrant... | |
 | Edward Walter Maunder - Astronomy - 1900 - 328 pages
...his attention to these deficiencies 'to apply himself/ as the king's astronomer, 'with the most exact care and diligence to the Rectifying the Tables of...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.'... | |
 | 1906 - 372 pages
...established in 1685, the duty of the appointee was declared to be "to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of...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."... | |
 | Harold Jacoby - Astronomy - 1902 - 274 pages
...Majesty's Astronomer " 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, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - Great Britain - 1907 - 810 pages
...has been appointed the King's Astronomical Observator forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of...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. [SP Dom., Entry Book... | |
 | Charles Lane Poor - Nautical astronomy - 1910 - 380 pages
...to the 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,...the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." The government, however,... | |
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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... 
