 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 444 pages
...star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star...described a circle round the pole. The high opinion which the pilots entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to this theory, and their... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Physics - 1853 - 390 pages
...which to allay their terrors. He. told them that the direction of the needle was not to the polar star, which, like the other heavenly bodies, had its changes...revolutions, and every day described a circle round the pole, but to some fixed and invisible point ; and therefore the variation was not caused by any failing in... | |
 | 1854 - 500 pages
...but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation was not caused by any failing in the compass, which, like the other heavenly bodies, had its changes...of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to the theory, and their alarm subsided." The illustrious navigator (on this voyage) had ascertained the... | |
 | William Henry Rosser - Marine meteorology - 1862 - 322 pages
...any failing in the compass, which, like the other heavenly bodies, had its changes and revolutions. The high opinion that the pilots entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to the theory, and their alarm subsided. The illustrious navigator, on this voyage, had ascertained the... | |
 | 1866 - 268 pages
...star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star...described a circle round the pole. The high opinion which the pilots entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to this theory, and their... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1868 - 528 pages
...star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the. north...described a circle round the pole. The high opinion which the pilots entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to this theory, and their... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1868 - 454 pages
...star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the Compass, but by the movement of the north star itself, which, like the olher heavenly bodies, had its changes and revolutions, and every day described a circle round the... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1869 - 532 pages
...star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star...described a circle round the pole. The high opinion which the pilots en tertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to this theory, and... | |
 | Technical educator - 1871 - 858 pages
...star, but to some fixed and invisible point ; the variation was not caused, therefore, by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the North star...revolutions, and every day described a circle round the pole. Tho pilots had faith in Columbus, and believed him. His explanation, as tho Copernican system was unknown,... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pages
...not caused by any fallacy in tke compass ; but by the movement in the north, star itself, which, like other heavenly bodies, had its changes and revolutions,...described a circle round the pole. The high opinion they entertained of Columbus as an astronomer gave weight to his theory, and their alarm subsided.... | |
| |
He observed that the direction of the needle was not to the polar star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself, which, like the other... 
