 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1872 - 748 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 itself " (vol. ip 202). 2ig2. SUPPERS IN ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. In 1586, Fletewood, on the occasion... | |
 | Technical educator - 1877 - 862 pages
...star, but to some fixed and invisible point ; the variation was not caused, therefom, by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the North star itself, which, like tho other heavenly bodies, had its changes and revolutions, and every day described a circle round... | |
 | Technical educator - 1880 - 850 pages
...star, but to wme fixed and invisible point ; the variation was not caused, therefore, by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the North star...and every day described a circle round the pole. The pilots had faith in Columbus, and believed him. His explanation, as the Copernican system was unknown,... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - Discoveries in geography - 1880 - 610 pages
...pilots, when they observed this, by assuring them that the variation was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself, which, like the other heavenly bodies, described a circle round the pole. The explanation appeared so highly plausible and ingenious that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1020 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1882 - 472 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...every day described a circle round the pole. The high opmion that the pilots entertained of Columbus, as a profound astronomer, gave weight to his theory,... | |
 | Washington Irving - West (U.S.) - 1883 - 1084 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 - 1885 - 474 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... | |
 | Edward Hull - Geomorphology - 1888 - 382 pages
...Star, but to some fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy of the compass, but by the movement of the North Star itself, which, like other heavenly bodies, had its changes and revolutions, and every day described a circle round the... | |
 | John Roy Musick - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1891 - 412 pages
...fixed and invisible point. These variations which we have discovered are not caused by any fallacy in the compass, but by the movement of the north star itself, which, like other heavenly bodies, has changed its revolutions, and every day describes a circle round the pole."... | |
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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... 
