Colonies of the World
Colonies of the World
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From the days of Columbus the art of navigation had steadily advanced with that of shipbuilding. The early sailors had either ill-built and unwieldy ships, which it was only safe to sail under the most favorable circumstances, or else mere cockboats; they were perpetually puzzled by the variation of the compass, and they had nothing to sail by but the plane chart, which could never be rendered accurate, because it is impossible to represent accu- rately the parts of a spherical surface by a fla...t picture. Gerard Mercator, a Netherlander, first found out how to make accurate charts about 1569; but it was long before his method w'as generally adopted. Other Dutchmen made advances in the science of navi- gation and in the construction of astronomical instruments; but the greatest improvement for many years was the application of logarithms to nautical calculations by an Englishman. Edmund Gunter, about 1620. By means of the logarithmic tables anybody who knows the first four rules of arithmetic may easily make ac- curate reckonings at sea, and what was formerly an intricate and difficult science was thus reduced to a simple mechanical form.
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From the days of Columbus the art of navigation had steadily advanced with that of shipbuilding. The early sailors had either ill-built and unwieldy ships, which it was only safe to sail under the most favorable circumstances, or else mere cockboats; they were perpetually puzzled by the variation of the compass, and they had nothing to sail by but the plane chart, which could never be rendered accurate, because it is impossible to represent accu- rately the parts of a spherical surface by a fla...t picture. Gerard Mercator, a Netherlander, first found out how to make accurate charts about 1569; but it was long before his method w'as generally adopted. Other Dutchmen made advances in the science of navi- gation and in the construction of astronomical instruments; but the greatest improvement for many years was the application of logarithms to nautical calculations by an Englishman. Edmund Gunter, about 1620. By means of the logarithmic tables anybody who knows the first four rules of arithmetic may easily make ac- curate reckonings at sea, and what was formerly an intricate and difficult science was thus reduced to a simple mechanical form.
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