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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared an English book Mathematical Magick in which a "submarine" was intelligently described, its operation suggested with fair sense, and the indication hinted that it could be. used in the "ice and cold-blocked north." Author of Mathematical Magick was John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, ancestor of Sir Hubert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Polliwog | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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