 | John Roy Musick - 1895 - 400 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."... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 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 entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to this theory, and their... | |
 | John Roy Musick - United States - 1908 - 556 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."... | |
 | JOHN R. MUSICK - 1907 - 610 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."... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 236 pages
...star, but to some fixt 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 they entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer gave weight to his theory, and their alarm subsided.... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 238 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... | |
 | 1922 - 736 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...and revolutions, and every day described a circle around the pole. The high opinion that the pilots entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer... | |
 | Electric power - 1922 - 734 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...and revolutions, and every day described a circle around the pole. The high opinion that the pilots entertained of Columbus as a profound astronomer... | |
 | Washington Irving - Travel - 2013 - 497 pages
...fixed and invisible point. The variation, therefore, was not caused by any fallacy in the compass, hot by the movement of the north star itself, which, like...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... | |
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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... 
