Identifier: annualreportofam00amer_2 (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the legislature of the State of New York.
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.
Subjects: Historic buildings Natural monuments Monuments
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 289

served by Hariot and again by Galileo, to the holy indignation
of good Aristotelians who deemed it flat blasphemy to say that the
Eye of the Universe could suffer from ophthalmia." As a mat-
ter of fact, Hudson did not observe a sun-spot; and if he had, he
would not have been the first to make such an observation. In
December, 1590, Master James Welsh, in command of the ship
Richard of Arundell. en route from London to Benin, records
"The 7, at the going down of the sunne we saw a great black spot
in the sunne; and the 8 day both at rising and setting we saw the
like, which spot to our seeming Avas about the bigness of a
shilling." On the night of the 16th they " saw another spot in the
sunne at his going down." From the foregoing it is apparent that
sun-spots were observed before 1609, and furthermore that they
were called "spots." The next question, then, is what is the
" slake " to which Juet's Journal refers, and we find the answer
by reading the nautical instructions and journals of other voyagers
of that period.

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