 | Edward Walter Maunder - Astronomy - 1900 - 328 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,... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - Great Britain - 1907 - 810 pages
...to John Flamsted, the King's Astronomical Observator, who was to apply himself 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 (p.... | |
 | Lena Milman - Architects - 1908 - 520 pages
...warrant '56 directing him 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.11... | |
 | Asia - 1919 - 770 pages
...astronomj' of his day, nor understood that its purpose was practical and scientific ; for " the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars ... for the perfecting the art of navigation"; not for providing the means for astrological fortune-telling.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 514 pages
...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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.'... | |
 | James Edward Gillespie - Great Britain - 1920 - 396 pages
...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 and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the much desired longitude of the places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.... | |
 | Science - 1920 - 956 pages
...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 longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | Great Britain - 1922 - 1378 pages
...directing him ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care an 1 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.'... | |
 | Hydrography - 1927 - 610 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 - Medicine - 1924 - 692 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... | |
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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... 
