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Tycho's Birth, Family, and Education An Eclipse of the Sun turns his attention to Astronomy Studies Law at Leipsic But pursues Astronomy by stealth His Uncle's Death He returns to Copenhagen, and resumes his Observations Revisits Germany Fights a Duel, and loses his Nose Visits Augsburg, and meets Hainzel Who assists him in making a large Quadrant Revisits Denmark And is warmly received by the King He settles at his Uncle's Castle of Herritzvold His Observatory and Laboratory Discovers the new Star in Cassiopeia Account of this remarkable Body Tycho's Marriage with a Peasant Girl Which irritates his Friends His Lectures on Astronomy He visits the Prince of Hesse Attends the Coronation of the Emperor Rudolph at Ratisbon He returns to Denmark.
To-morrow you shall go on deck with me, and I will show you how to use a quadrant and take the altitude of the sun, and from it how to calculate the longitude, which is somewhat more difficult than the latitude.
"It's twelve o'clock, sir," said the master, touching his hat, with his quadrant in his hand. "Make it so, and pipe to dinner." Newton was stationed in the foretop. In a few days the awkwardness arising from the novelty of the scene, and from the superior dimensions of every variety of equipment on board of the frigate, compared to the small craft to which he had been accustomed, passed away.
But anything cruder than the "rule-of-thumb" way in which he found his positions, or more out of date than his "hog-yoke," or quadrant, I have never seen. I suppose we carried a chronometer, though I never saw it or heard the cry of "stop," which usually accompanies a.m. or p.m. "sights" taken for longitude.
Geology gives us a very long margin of time since the north-west quadrant began to be reinhabited by human beings after the Ice Age, and assumed approximately its present distribution of land and water.
In fact every branch of science saw a greater chance of success in the Ross quadrant than in any other region. Concerning instructions on such a voyage as the Discovery's it may be thought that, when once the direction is settled, the fewer there are the better.
That on the fifth day of the calm, all on board suffering much from the heat, and want of water, and five having died in fits, and mad, the negroes became irritable, and for a chance gesture, which they deemed suspicious though it was harmless made by the mate, Raneds, to the deponent in the act of handing a quadrant, they killed him; but that for this they afterwards were sorry, the mate being the only remaining navigator on board, except the deponent.
Thus, having measured with a quadrant the height of a tower, and found on the narrowest search and comparison that the report of my instrument was right, I yield credit to this process in another instance, without being at the trouble to verify its results in any more elaborate method.
He reminded himself of its unlighted windows; of its sign, "To be let"; of the effluvia of desolation that had saluted him when the door swung wide. A deserted house; and the girl alone in it! was it right for him to leave her so? The covered alleyway gave upon Quadrant Mews; or so declared a notice painted on the dead wall of the passage.
All this time the cabriolet was dashing down Regent-street, twisting through the Quadrant, whirling along Pall Mall, until it finally entered Cleveland-row, and stopped before a newly painted, newly pointed, and exceedingly compact mansion, the long brass knocker of whose dark green door sounded beneath the practised touch of his lordship's tiger.
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