The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-26
The Science of NauscopIa.

II SclehcS OF NauScOplas
The singular word which stands at the head of
this article is one of the new inventions in the
shape of English words which now and then ap-
pear in print. Professor Lowell's new word,
s. undisprivaeied," the exact meaning of which
one is at first at a loss to discover, has been called
by some one in a satirical vein, "a four story
polysyllable with a French roof"
Many of our readers may remember of having
heard or read of, some years ago, about a French
man, who, arriving in Paris, in 1885, announced
that he had made a { grand discovery =" by which
be had ascertained the means of perceiving the
approach of ships, at a distance, even SO far as
two hundred and fifty leagues, or near a thousand
miles of. He bad been living at the Isle of
France for a number of years, and claimed that
he had accidentally perceived, during twenty years
OF residence there, that certain phenomena in
the heavens indicated the approach of ships.
Being a man of education, he closely investigated
these phenomena, and after an immense number
of observations, uncertainties and failures. he ar
rived at a method of reading these observations,
which, though from the nature of the case it was
not quite certain, was yet so nearly correct as
that, out of one hundred and ffty-fve predictions
of the arrivals of ships, more than half were alb
solutely correct, while a large part of the re-
mainder were subsequently proved to be correct
so far as the passage of the ships, on the days
and at the distances stated was concerned. Mons.
Bottineau, (for that was his name,) got from the
French Government philosophical society at that
time. a name for his discovery, and it was dubbed
. The Science OF NauscoPia, derived from the
r.
ureek' CHdus, ana SSOPeo, 10 TOOK o00nt.) The
learned sGrdns who came to this decision were
undoubtedly influenced by the following ezplana-
uon by Nj. bottlneau:
sUciaI oTrS1izaSio Shs n sT's sn1eI may ,a aPpesr' a requires Sn, neither a
is a knOwledge Of a certain physical phenomenon which cir
Being in the Isle Of France, twenty years ago. and having
ships vas Always ps PRECEDED L SS " a ! certain ntafe' psep M sSs Of sT 5S,nr Of
and the recurrence Of this singularity made me suspect that
in question and the passage Of ships. Following up This idea,
! y TSss mn u DhsnomenGn ,. iDoo,,..,,,,v tho ruu, \, 49,
passage OF a ship.
arrival Of the ship.
the ship moved. @"'" I'll NC "' WHICH
T. That other variations were caused by the number of the
S That the same principles which showed to the observer
sea. P pp"'A - 'f
Ont : f In, . the = p hsTS ,Sa with certain changes served to
! That the different variations were perceived by day or
"Aiter passing twenty years in studying these notifications,
manner = ea anS 20 c = Gssss ny ; a%e . nITsnge them m in an mil intaIi6ls
which increasing the sphere Of human knowledge,
pectsd by physicists, and CALCULATED to b. safety to th sn
IL rfencn revolution came IN at TINS J~uncture
u '"1 . ofy' anu Do'tineau uisappears
'0 su"
MS twenty years Oh patent LABOR appeared 10
nave Oeen "aS'eo' anu the science OF n0usoop'a
forever loSt 10 the human race but IN loIO'