 | Hydrography - 1925 - 684 pages
...remedy these defects, and FLAMSTEED, the first Astronomer Royal, was charged to make observations for " 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 at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation". At the suggestion of Sir Christopher... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Appropriations - 1956 - 196 pages
...of the Greenwich Observatory in England in 1675 — "* * * for rectifying the tables of the motion 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." Nevil Maskelyne, who became... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - United States - 1956 - 200 pages
...of the Greenwich Observatory in England in 1675 — "* * * for rectifying the tables of the motion 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." Nevil Maskelyne, who became... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 966 pages
...Flamsteed, master of arts, our 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. . . . Several sites for... | |
 | Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - Science - 1995 - 1010 pages
...but no English example existed. Flamsteed, in contrast, was required by his warrant of appointment 'forthwith to apply himself with the utmost care and...motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars'3, and was subsequently provided with sufficient practical means to carry out this instruction.... | |
 | Alan H. Cook - Biography & Autobiography - 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 demolished St... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...problem of finding longitude for ships at sea. In 1675, King Charles II appointed an Astronomer Royal "...to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, or as to find out the so much-desired longitude... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Education - 2000 - 474 pages
...was 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,...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" (Quill, 1966, p. 2).... | |
 | Robin Eagles - History - 2002 - 544 pages
...John Flamsteed is appointed the first astronomer-royal. fifi, I 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. • Instructions to John... | |
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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... 
