 | Hydrography - 1927 - 602 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...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, but it was long before... | |
 | George Sarton - Science - 1924 - 694 pages
...the first method which led to the creation, in 1675, of the Greenwich Observatory (« for rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars so as to find the so-much desired longitude of places for perfecting the art of navigation >). The... | |
 | Astronomy - 1925 - 840 pages
...astronomical observator, forthwith to apply himielf with the most exact care and diiigenoe to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, go as to find out the so-much-desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.... | |
 | Astronomy - 1927 - 426 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...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, but it was long before... | |
 | Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - Great Britain - 1927 - 494 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...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, but it was long before... | |
 | Hydrography - 1925 - 674 pages
...defects, and FLAMSTEED, the first Astronomer Royal, was charged to make observations for " 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". At the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 966 pages
...astronomical observator, 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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.... | |
 | Frances Willmoth - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 274 pages
...stated that Flamsteed should '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-muchdesired longitude of places for perfecting the art of navigation', and... | |
 | Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - Science - 1995 - 1078 pages
...warrant of appointment 'forthwith to apply himself with the utmost care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the 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 - Astronomers - 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... | |
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our astronomical 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... 
