Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 274
n as to tides, stars, and how to use the astro-labe. And it is worth noting that he speaks of theEnglish Channel after the fashion of our Gallic neigh-bours, who still refer to La manche. Our Chan-nell, he explains, commonly called the Sleue (sleeve). Everyone knows that longitude is the distance… … SHIPS AND WAYS OF OTHER DAYS west of a given meridian. In those days Greenwich didnot enter into the matter : the observatory there hadstill to be founded. When Davis wrote in the year1594 there was no variation at St. Michaels in theAzores, and so the longitude was reckoned from there. Longitude,…
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