 | Robert Norman - 1720 - 198 pàgines
...before i touched the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the Stone, that prefently the north point thereof would bend or Decline downwards under the Horizon in fome quantitic : infomucbt that to the Flie of the Compare, which before was made equall, I was ftill qonftrained... | |
 | George Adams - 1794 - 622 pàgines
...account of the difcovery in his. own words. " Having (lays he) made many. and divers compafles, and ufing always to finifh and end them before I touched the...compafs, which before was made equal, I was ftill contained to put fome fmall piece of wax in the fouth part thereof, to conn-. terpoife this declining,... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1835 - 800 pàgines
...the needle, I found continually, that, after I had touched the iron with the stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend or decline downwards under the horizon in some quantity, in so much that to the fly of the compass, which before was made equal, I was still... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1846 - 810 pàgines
...the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend, or decline, downwards under the horizon in some quantitie : insomuch that to the flie of the compasse, which before was made equall, I was still... | |
 | 1846 - 810 pàgines
...the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend, or decline, downwards under the horizon in some quantitie : insomuch that to the flie of the compasse, which before was made equal], I was still... | |
 | James Edward Henry Gordon - 1880 - 412 pàgines
...the needle, I found continuallie that, after I had touched the yrons with the stone, that presentlie the North point thereof would bend or decline downwards under the horizon in some quantitie ; insomuch that to the flie of the compass, which was before levell, I was still constrained... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1895 - 650 pàgines
...touched the needle, I found continually that after I had touched the yrons with the Stone, that presently the north point thereof would bend or Decline downwards under the Horizon in some quantitie ; insomuch that to the Flie of the Compasse which before was made equall, I was still... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1909 - 136 pàgines
...before I touched the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with the Stone, that prefently the north point thereof would bend or Decline downwards under the Horizon in fome quantitie: infomuch that to the Flie of the compaffe, which before was madeequall, I was ftill conftrained... | |
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Hauing made many and diuers compasses, and using alwaiea to finish and end them before I touched the needle, I found continually, that after I had touched the yrons with... 