Quotes About Navigation

generation earlier, Manuel's father had sent ships to intercept Columbus.

especially for those born in ports and maritime areas. This sort is the most numerous among mariners

Magellan also received a secret communiqué from his father-in-law, Diogo Barbosa

I saw a fleet of fishing boats…. I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland.They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.

Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colón disputed both facts.

I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants

It appears that the charts must have originated with a people unknown; that they were passed on, perhaps by the Minoans (the Sea Kings of ancient Crete) and the Phoenicians, who were for a thousand years and more the greatest sailors of the ancient world. We have evidence that they were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria and that compilations of them were made by the greographers who worked there.

Literature — a lighthouse to lost souls.

Go to any sea-port town and you will see that the Sea-captain who has retired upon his well-earned savings, sets up a weather-cock in full view from his windows, and watches the variations of the wind as duly as when he was at sea, though no longer with the same anxiety.

You know you're a skydiver when you know what the lines mean on a weather map.

Acting Captain Warms' first terrible miscalculation came when he executed the textbook turn into the wind to meet the storm squall.

There are no compasses for journeying in time.

Parantham finally realized that selecting a star on the map enabled a sub-menu with the unassuming option "Go to star". Choosing this did not change the map's viewpoint or magnification; rather, it caused the map to inquire politely, "Are you sure you wish to travel to this star?

In the same manner as the sea, those who are swept away from the course leading to the harbor correct their aim by a clear mark, looking for a lighthouse on high, or a certain mountain appearing. In the same manner Scripture by the example of Abraham and Sarah will direct us once more to the safe harbor of the divine will for those who have drifted out in the sea of life with a mind lacking a navigator.

He sometimes imagined them all, men and women, children, everyone in the world, sailing down the Sky River in the hugeness of the dark, surrounded by all the stars. Some tried to steer the ship. He had tried. But only the gods could do that, in the end.

When you're lost, admit it, and ask for directions.

If you knew where you were, there was no way of knowing where you were going and conversely, if you knew where you were going, there was no way of knowing where you were....

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

i know by heart the places he likes to saale, delvan first and duvlin after, by dredgerous lands and devious delts

Sarebbe difficile definire esattamente i piani di Mildred. Mildred era femmina in tutto e per tutto e la caratteristica di una mente femminile è che si comporta nella direttiva come una nave cui sia possibile virare di bordo all'infinito. Ogni virata si risolve in un vago angolo, eppure, inesorabilmente, tutta la manovra conduce l'imbarcazione in porto.

Now he was as lost as the rest of us, and didn't know his way out of the particular patch of woods and that homestead any more than a bird knows his way out of a privy with the door closed, but he was the leader, and he had found what he wanted.

Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me, I told them. One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. Really? said one. No you idiot, I said in disgust. I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.

There, then," Bree said, and she hugged me tight. "Briefly lost at sea. No shipwreck. A little navigation issue. That is all.

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.