Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 256
)robable that it shifts its position slowly. 275. Declination, llie earliest users of the compass wereaware that it did not point exactly north; Init it was Columbuswho, on his first voyage to America, made the discovery, muchto the alarm of his sailors, that the direction of the compass … William Gilbert (1540-1603) English physician and physicist; first Englishman to appreciatefully the value of experimental observations; first to discoverthrough careful experimentation that the compass points to thenorth not because of some influence of the stars, but because theearth is itself a…
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