"Euroclydon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... astronomy has what are called practical uses. If a ship had been driven by Euroclydon ten times fourteen days and nights without sun or star appearing, a moment's glance into the heavens from the heaving deck, by a very slightly educated sailor, would tell within one hundred yards where he was, and determine the distance and way to the ...
— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren |
