 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...  Popular Astronomy - Síða 154eftir Simon Newcomb - 1878 - 578 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | 1845 - 854 síður
...instruments. By the words of Flamsteed's commission, he was directed ' to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of...and the places of the fixed stars, in order to find the so-much desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation.' With what success this... | |
 | 1845 - 636 síður
...instruments. By the words of Flamsteed's commission, he was directed " to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of...heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, in order to lind the somuch desired longitude at sea, for perfecting the art of navigation." With what success... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 378 síður
...his successors were that they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to rectify the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the...much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting of the art of navigation. It was not however till after Mr. Flarnstead's death that the tables of the... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 síður
...Observatory: his title in the warrant is 'our astronomical observator;' and his duty is '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.' The... | |
 | 1850 - 604 síður
...Baily's Life, pp. 87-8 ; but particularly Flamsteed's letter to Snerbourne, in the same work, p. 125. 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." The... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 síður
...Baily's Life, pp. 37-8 ; but particularly Flamsteed'a letter to SliiTbcnii nr, in the same work, p. 126. 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." The... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 síður
...styled " our Astronomical Observator," and it is declared that the duty of his office is " forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...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."... | |
 | John Weale - 1852 - 966 síður
...observatory, for the express purpose, as the warrant of the first Astronomer Royal 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." Through... | |
 | John Weale - 1854 - 1004 síður
...observatory, for the express purpose, as the warrant of the first Astronomer Royal 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." Through... | |
 | Urbain J.-J Le Verrier - 1855 - 456 síður
...des comètes; les (*) That they should apply themselves with the utmost care and diligence to rectify the Tables of the motions of the heavens and the places...order to find out the so much desired longitude at the sea, for the perfection of the art of navigation. mouvements et la nature tics étoiles; les nébuleuses... | |
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