| 单词 | hydrographer to the admiralty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHydrographer to the Admiralty One skilled or practised in hydrography; spec. one whose business it is to make hydrographic surveys and to construct charts of the sea, its currents, etc., as the Hydrographer to the Admiralty.The first Hydrographer to the Navy was appointed in 1795. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > hydrography > [noun] > hydrographer hydrographer1559 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse Table sig. Tii Shipmans compasse vnknowne to the olde Hydrographers. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiij v What way, the Tides and Ebbes, come and go, the Hydrographer ought to recorde. 1671 J. Seller Eng. Pilot (title page) Collected..by Iohn Seller, hydrographer to the King. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 288 The South Sea must be of a greater breadth..than it's commonly reckoned by Hydrographers. 1795 Admiralty Ord. in Council 12 Aug. I. 124 We would humbly propose to Your Majesty that a proper person should be fixed upon to be appointed Hydrographer to this Board. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage ii. 9 Captain Beaufort, the Admiralty hydrographer. 1880 W. B. Carpenter in 19th Cent. 609 All the best hydrographers..agree..that the Florida current dies out in the mid-Atlantic. < as lemmas |
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