| Show Sailors Owe Sextant to Chance Happening The element of ot chance chane ploys plays an nn im portent port part In Invention one and In to no case cose Is In this more mare strikingly illustrated thin than thuu In la that of vr Thomas Godfrey the American who Improved ell upon the or rather ruther devised the sex sex- that the basic notion for tor which he got cot gothy by hy noting the reflection refection of ot the tho sun sua from n pull of or water venter Godfrey was a 0 glazier by trade but buth buthe buthe h he hud had n a taste for tor mathematics and was at a man of ot some sOllie culture Julio llY hall had also Invented a 9 sextant apparently a 11 development ofa of ofa If Ifo a o suggestion of Newtons Newton's found among his papers at his Ills death God Godfrey GodFrey frey trey anticipated by about one but t for r a n long time tune his claims claim were not reco recognized receiving the entire credit The glazier thus received his InspIration Inspiration ration for tor the lie Instrument that was to prove pro of ot such value to mariners One Ono white while replacing a pane pone of glass glOM In tn n a window of ot a house In Philadelphia Philadel phia opposite a pump he saw lOW a n girl after atler filling her pull pall put it on a side sId walk The observant glazier saw BOW th the sun reflected from the window on which he had hod been nt at work into the till bucket of ot water Ills His mind quickly perceived the significance of the and he lie was was was' thus led to the design of ot tin an Instrument for tor drawing the sun sundown sundown down flown to the horizon a device Incomparably superior to any that had hod hitherto hith erto been used for tor the ascertainment of ot angular measurements |
