 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
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891 - 580 síður
...Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence in the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens...at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." I must now claim your attention for a few minutes while I explain, very briefly, a few of the principal... | |
 | 1892 - 544 síður
...Minister, and holds his warrant of ollice under the Itoyal Sign Manual. By this warrant he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." These instructions are now a little out of date, for though they satisfy the great fundamental work... | |
 | 1892 - 496 síður
...Minister, and holds his warrant of office under the Eoyal Sign Manual. By this warrant he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation." These instructions are now a little out of date, for though they satisfy the great fundamental work... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 510 síður
...The royal warrant appointing the first astronomer-royal also declares that his duty 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 of the art of navigation."... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 508 síður
...navigation. The royal warrant appointing the first astronomer-royal also declares that his duty 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 of the art of navigation."... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 516 síður
...The royal warrant appointing the first astronomer-royal also declares that his duty 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 of the art of navigation."... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1892 - 668 síður
...with the duties of the Astronomer Royal as specified in the Royal Warrant, by which he is directed " to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence...of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars. . . ." It has been above remarked that after the establishment of order and system in the observatory,... | |
 | 1893 - 630 síður
...improved the marine chronometer. Astronomer Boyal was, on the establishment of the office in 1675, declared to be " to apply himself with the most exact...so much desired longitude at sea for the perfecting of the art of navigation." NOTES ON A GREAT SILVER CAMP. By WA CARLYLE, Ma.E., of McGill University.... | |
 | 1893 - 662 síður
...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...so much desired longitude at sea for the perfecting of the art of navigation." NOTES ON A GREAT SILVER CAMP. By WA CARLYLE, Ma.E., of McGill University.... | |
 | Frederick James Britten - 1894 - 416 síður
...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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