 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 612 pages
...to use it, lest he should fall under the suspicion of being a magician; nor would the sailors even venture themselves out to sea under his command, if...constructed under the influence of some infernal spirit.' It is mentioned by Baylak, an Arabian writer, about 1242, that the directive power of the magnetic... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...to use it, lest he should fall under the suspicion of being a magician; nor would the sailors even venture themselves out to sea under his command, if...constructed under the influence of some infernal spirit.' It is mentioned by Bavlak, an Arabian writer, about 1242, that the directive power of the magnetic... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 422 pages
...ignorant prejudice by which navigators were deterred from its adoption ; for, says he, " No master mariner dares to use it, lest he should fall under the supposition...being constructed under the influence of some infernal spirit.1' A more recent writer, the Jesuit Riccioli, states that " in the reign of St. Louis the French... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1840 - 408 pages
...ignorant prejudice by which navigators were deterred from its adoption; for, says he, " No master mariner dares to use it, lest he should fall under the supposition...great an appearance of being constructed under the iniluence of some infernal spirit.'' A more recent writer, the Jesuit Riccioli, states that u in the... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 486 pages
...ignorant prejudice by which navigators were deterred from its adoption ; for, says he, " No master mariner dares to use it, lest he should fall under the supposition...instrument which carries so great an appearance of being constnicted under the influence of some infernal spirit." A more recent writer, the Jesuit Riccioli,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1866 - 674 pages
...prejudice by which navigators were deterred from its adoption : — " For," save he, " no master mariner dares to use it. lest he should fall under the supposition...constructed under the influence of some infernal spirit." But in the reign of St. Louis, Riccioli says, "the French mariners commonly used the magnetic needle,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 434 pages
...Dante's teacher, observes that the Needle was highly useful at sea ; but at the same time notices the prejudices by which navigators were deterred from...constructed under the influence of some infernal spirit." Dante refers, in a simile, to the needle "which points to the star." Navarrete quotes a remarkable... | |
 | James Parton - Civilization - 1871 - 730 pages
...other times, because no master-mariner dares to use it, lest he should fall under a supposition of his being a magician ; nor would even the sailors venture...constructed under the influence of some infernal spirit." "\Vell might he say so in speaking of poor Friar Bacon, who, not many years after this visit, was imprisoned... | |
 | Technical educator - 1871 - 858 pages
...adoption ; for, says he, " no master-mariner dares to use it, 'wt he fthould fall under the suspicion cf being a magician ; nor would even the sailors venture themselves out to sea under ka command, if he took with him an instrument which carries *° great an appearance of being constructed... | |
 | Technical educator - 1880 - 850 pages
...adoption ; for, says he, " no master-mariner dares to use it, lot he should fall under the suspicion of being a magician ; nor would even the sailors venture themselves out to sea under hu command, if he took with him an instrument which carries «o great an appearance of being constructed... | |
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This discovery," continues Latini, " which appears useful in so great a degree to all who travel by sea, must remain concealed until other times ; because no master mariner dares to use it, lest he should fall under the supposition of being a magician... 
