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Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893

Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893, Page 25

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18 we must not overlook the fact that the discovery of America was due in the main to the invention of the sextant. Let us now erect a new statue of the great discoverer, not of Columbus the sailor, surrounded by rope and cordage, bit of Columbus the scientist.Let us have him standing on the rocky shore of Spain gazing upward toward the stars while by his side the goddess Invention offers with one hand the sextant and with the other points far out across the waste of water toward the great undiscovered continent - America.
 
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