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Newspaper
Juvenile Library
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 01, 1801
Page
12
The text discusses refraction and reflection to view distant objects and measure angles. It highlights a great astronomer who discovered an error leading to the calendar reform and notes a proposed correction by Bacon versus Gregory the Great.
Fragmentary notes describe Easter Island discovered in 1686 by Daviss. A 1722 Dutch voyage named it Easter Island. Accounts from Captain Cook, Forster, Dedsa Peronte, and others cite the land as triangular, ten to twelve leagues around, rising high above the sea with limited visibility beyond fifty to sixty miles.
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