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Richard Newton

The Safe Compass, and How It Points

Paperback (Forgotten Books Feb. 11, 2018)
Excerpt from The Safe Compass, and How It PointsWhat a curious thing a compass is! How strange ly the little needle trembles on the point of the piece of wire which supports it! How wonderful it is to see that needle always pointing to the North! Who can explain how it is that it always does so? God made it to be always pointing in one direction, and it does just what he wants it to do. This is all we know about it. If you ask a learned man what it is which makes the needle of the compass always point to the North, he will tell vou it is magnetism. But, if you ask him what magnetism is, or how it pro duces this effect upon the needle, he can not tell you.Nobody can explain this. But the compass is not the less useful because none can explain the way in which the needle acts. The compass is one of the most useful things we have. The sailor never could find his way over the sea without 'it. And those who have to travel over great deserts, or through coun tries in which there are no roads, always need a com pass, to show them the direction in which they should go.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
ISBN
024343619X / 9780243436194
Pages
344
Weight
16.0 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.7 in.

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