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Various. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers
Table of Contents
PREFACE
EXPLORERS
COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA
Justin Winsor
LEWIS AND CLARKE REACH THE. PACIFIC OCEAN
THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Brigadier-General Zebulon M. Pike
MANILA IN 1842
Lieutenant Charles Wilkes
THE ASCENT OF MOUNT TYNDALL
Clarence King
THE GRAND CAÑON OF THE. COLORADO
Major John Wesley Powell
FOOTNOTES:
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Various
Published by Good Press, 2019
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He argued from what he saw, or what he thought he saw, that the line of no variation marked the beginning of a protuberance of the earth, up which he ascended as he sailed westerly, and that this was the reason of the cooler weather which he experienced. He never got over some notions of this kind, and he believed he found confirmation of them in his later voyages.
Even as early as the reign of Edward III. of England, Nicholas of Lynn, a voyager to the northern seas, is thought to have definitely fixed the magnetic pole in the Arctic regions, transmitting his views to Cnoyen, the master of the later Mercator, in respect to the four circumpolar islands, which in the sixteenth century made so constant a surrounding of the north pole.
