scholarly journals The Japan Expedition: Japan and around the World: An Account of Three Visits to the Japanese Empire, with Sketches of Madeira, St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, China, and Loo-Choo

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Empire ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The World ◽  
St Helena

scholarly journals LVII. Astronomical observations made at the Island of St. Helena, by Nevil Maskelyne, M. A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and F. R. S

1764 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 348-386 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Focal Length ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The Difference ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Nevil Maskelyne

The following observations were taken with a reflecting telescope, of two feet focal length, made by Mr. Short (of a similar size and construction to those used in the observation of the transit of Venus, by himself at Saville House, by Mr. Green at Greenwich, and by Mess. Mason and Dixon at the Cape of Good Hope), with an equal altitude instrument made by Mr. Bird, and a clock, with a gridiron pendulum, made by Mr. Shelton, an account of whose going, at Greenwich, before my departure of St. Helena, and immediately upon my arrival there, is contained in Phil. Trans. Vol. LII. Part. II. Page 434. and the difference of gravity between those two places thence deduced.

scholarly journals On the annual variation of the magnetic declination, at different periods of the day

1854 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 73-74
Keyword(s):  
Annual Variation ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Horizontal Line ◽  
Annual Variations ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Magnetic Declination ◽  
Annual Range ◽  
The Hours ◽  
The Mean ◽  
St Helena

In this communication the author has arranged and presented together the Annual variations which the magnetic declination undergoes at every hour of the day at the four Colonial Observatories established by the British government, at Toronto, Hobarton, the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena. This has been done by means of a graphical representation, in which the annual variations at every hour are shown by vertical lines varying in length according to the amount of the range of the annual variation at each hour; each line having also small cross lines marking the mean positions of the several months in the annual range. The mean declination in the year at the respective hours is marked by a horizontal line which crosses all the verticals at each station. The hours are those of mean solar time at each station, the day commencing at noon.

The 1903 Human Pavilion: Colonial Realities and Subaltern Subjectivities in Twentieth-Century Japan

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten L. Ziomek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Japanese Empire ◽  
Military Conscription ◽  
The World

This article discusses the 1903 Human Pavilion's Ainu Fushine Kōzō, who advanced a notion of imperial subjecthood, where one could be Ainu and a loyal subject of the Japanese empire. Fushine urged that the Ainu be treated equitably not because all races were equal, a rather modern and Western notion, but because he viewed imperial subjecthood as predicated upon military conscription and being children of the emperor. I examine the removal of the Okinawan women, Nakamura Kame and Uehara Ushi, from the display, amidst a larger debate where competing visions of imperial subjecthood and what it meant to be civilized were tied up with the charge that the pavilion was a humanitarian concern (jindō mondai). The Human Pavilion became a nexus between colonial and imperial subjects, which, rather than reifying distinctions between the two, called into question the coherence of civilizational taxonomies in Japan and the world.

scholarly journals II. On the relations of the secular variation of the magnetic declination and inclination at London, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena and Ascension Island, as exhibited on the magnetarium

1894 ◽  
Vol 55 (331-335) ◽  
pp. 210-217 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Science ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Magnetic Elements ◽  
Ascension Island ◽  
Secular Variations ◽  
Short Period ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Northern And Southern Hemispheres ◽  
Diurnal Rotation

In a paper which was read before the Royal Society in June, 1890, I showed that the principal phenomena of terrestrial magnetism and the secular changes in its horizontal and vertical components could be explained on the assumption of an electro-dynamic substance (presumably liquid or gaseous) rotating within the crust of the earth in the plane of the ecliptic, and a little slower than the diurnal rotation. By means of some electro-mechanism, new to experimental science, which I termed a magnetarium, the period of backward rotation of the internal electro-dynamic sphere required for the secular variations of the magnetic elements on different parts of the earth’s surface was found to be 960 years, or 22.5 minutes of a degree annually. It was also demonstrated that the inclination of the axes of the electro-dynamic and terrestrial globes to each other of 20° 30', was the cause of the inequality of the declination periods about the same meridian in the northern and southern hemispheres; as instanced in the short period of outward westerly declination at London, and the long period of outward westerly declination at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena.

scholarly journals La decisión de Elcano.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Zulaika
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
North Indian Ocean ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
South Sea

La decisión de regresar de las Molucas hacia occidente fue lo que convirtió la expedición a la Especiería en la que dio la primera vuelta al mundo. Volver por el cabo de Buena Esperanza contravenía las órdenes recibidas por los expedicionarios porque invadía el territorio portugués que establecía el tratado de Tordesillas. Tres fueron las principales motivaciones: a) partir cuanto antes hacia Sevilla para informar que habían descubierto un paso al mar del Sur y que era posible llegar a las Molucas por territorio castellano; b) evitar ser apresados por los portugueses, y c) el monzón que soplaba en ese momento del NE, dificultándoles el regreso por América y por el Indico norte. El regreso por el oeste se acordó por todos expedicionarios pero la decisión de Elcano fue determinante para volver por esta ruta, arrostrar las penalidades que sufrieron y dar la vuelta al mundo. The decision to return from the Moluccas to the west was what turned the expedition to the Spice into the first trip around the world. Returning through the Cape of Good Hope contravened the orders received by the expedition members because they invaded the Portuguese territory established by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The main motivations were three: a) to leave as soon as possible to Seville to report that they had discovered a passage to the South Sea and that it was possible to reach the Moluccas through Castilian territory; b) avoid being captured by the Portuguese, and c) the monsoon that was blowing at that time from the NE, making it difficult for them to return through America and the North Indian Ocean. The return to the west was agreed by all expedition members but Elcano's decision was decisive to return along this route, face the hardships they suffered and go around the world.

scholarly journals LXXXVI. Observations for proving the going of Mr. Ellicott's clock, at St. Helena

1761 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 534-539 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
St Helena

In my return from the cape of Good Hope, the clock, used in the observations made there, was set going at James's sort, St. Helena, the pendulum remaining as at the Cape.

scholarly journals V. Extract of a letter from the Abbé De la Caille, of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and F. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. F. R. S. recommending to the Rev. Mr. Nevil Maskelyne, F. R. S. to make at St. Helena a series of observations for discovering the parallax of the Moon

1761 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
St Helena ◽  
Nevil Maskelyne ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Made In

Dr. Watson lately received a letter from the Abbé De la Caille at Paris, in which he takes notice, "That although the pa- "rallax of the moon seems sufficiently well deter"mined, by the observations made in 1751, in "Europe and at the Cape of Good Hope; never- "theless, an element of this importance cannot be “too well ascertained.

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