 | Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 526 páginas
...duty of that official 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, in order to find out the so much desired longitude at sea, for the perfecting the art of navigation."... | |
 | 1919 - 770 páginas
...European 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.... | |
 | 1920 - 522 páginas
...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 places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.' The observatory at Greenwich,... | |
 | 1920 - 956 páginas
...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 places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation." The observatory at Greenwich,... | |
 | James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 396 páginas
...to the 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...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. 1 Sir Clements R.... | |
 | 1922 - 1378 páginas
...warrant dated 4 March 1675, directing him ' forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care an 1 diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions...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.' A site in Greenwich... | |
 | 1927 - 610 páginas
...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 of the Fixed Stars, in order to find out the so much desired Longitude at Sea ". From that day it has been one of the foremost... | |
 | George Sarton - 1924 - 692 páginas
...to develop 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 study of the Moon's... | |
 | 1925 - 840 páginas
...Arts, our 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.... | |
 | 1927 - 426 páginas
...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 of the Fixed Stars, in order to find out the so much desired Longitude at Sea." From that day it has been one of the foremost... | |
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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... 
