 When an iron point is rubbed upon the magnet, it acquires the property of pointing to the south ; yet it always declines eastward, and is not perfectly true to the south. On this account, a thread of new cotton is taken and attached by a particle of wax...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 2481841Full view - About this book
 | Asia - 1834 - 604 pages
...needle, the discovery of which has been attributed to Columbus: "When a steel point is rubbed with the magnet, it acquires the property of pointing to the south; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due south. Inconsequence, a new cotton thread is fastened by... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 484 pages
...medicine and natural history has the following passage : — " When 'a s'ffe'el point is rubbed with the magnet it acquires the' property of pointing to the south ; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due -south. If the needle be passed through a wick (made of... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 422 pages
...work on medicine and natural history has the following passage: — "When a steel point is rubbed '.'' the magnet it acquires the property of pointing to the south ; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due south. If the needle be passed through a wick (made of... | |
 | 1841 - 542 pages
...knowledge of it in that quarter of the globe ; and recalling the signification of calamita, little yreen frog, and the Burman appellation for the compass,...perfectly true to the south. On this account, a thread of new cotton is taken and attached by a particle of wax as large as a mustard-seed, exactly to the middle... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1846 - 514 pages
...on medicine and natural history has the following passage : — " When a steel point is rubbed with the magnet, it acquires the property of pointing to the south; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due south. If the needle be passed through a wick (made of... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1857 - 442 pages
...on medicine and natural history has the following passage : — " When a steel point is rubbed with the magnet, it acquires the property of pointing to the south ; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due south. If the needle be passed through a wick (made of... | |
 | Great Britain. Patent Office - Patents - 1859 - 870 pages
...natural history, about 1111, the following passage occurs : — " When a steel point is rubbed with the magnet it " acquires the property of pointing to the south; yet it " declines always to the east, and is not due south. If the " needle be passed through a wick (made... | |
 | George Gore - Chimie, Découvertes - 1878 - 694 pages
...History ' &c., published about the year 1111 it is stated : — ' When a steel point is rubbed with the magnet it acquires the property of pointing to the south ; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due south. If the needle be passed through a wick (made of... | |
 | George Gore - Chimie, Découvertes - 1878 - 696 pages
...History ' &c., published about the year lili it is stated : — ' When a steel point is rubbed with the magnet it acquires the property of pointing to the south ; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due south. If the needle be passed through a wick (made of... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - Discoveries in geography - 1881 - 368 pages
...history, quoted by Sir John Davis, has the following passage : ' When a steel point is rubbed with the magnet it acquires the property of pointing to the south; yet it declines always to the east, and is not due south. If the needle be passed through a wick, made of... | |
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