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Updated: May 8, 2025

The Gauss's navigator was Captain Hans Ruser, a skilful seaman of the Hamburg-American line. Drygalski had chosen his scientific staff with knowledge and care, and it is certain that he could not have obtained better assistants. The expedition left Kiel on August 11, 1901, bound for Cape Town.

Roald Amundsen - The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1

But geometers are men; and the contagion of patriotic fervour which swept over Germany after the battle of Leipsic did not spare Gauss's promising pupil. He took up arms in the Hanseatic Legion, and marched and fought until the oppressor of his country was safely ensconced behind the ocean-walls of St. Helena.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition

In 1841, the elaborate organisation created by the disinterested efforts of scientific "agitators" was complete; Gauss's "magnetometers" were vibrating under the view of attentive observers in five continents, and simultaneous results began to be recorded. Ten years later, in September, 1851, Dr.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition