Blacker Still

Name: Tomas Langley                                                                                                                 

Date:  January 16^th 1875

The first detailed descriptions of both a floating and a pivoted compass appeared in the Epistola of Petrus Perigrinus written in 1269. In this remarkable work Perigrinus did more than just describe the construction of a compass. He described experiments performed on a sphere of lodestone, predating the more famous work of William Gilbert by more than 300 years. Peregrinus made three important discoveries, what might those be?

The earth was originally found to be a flat surface while peregrinus proved that the earths shape is more on the spherical side with no definite ends.

The earth has magnetic forces on either side of the earth; the north and the south.These magnetic sides are what causes the compass to show us the correct direction in which north is placed.

The earth does not move in a circular direction on a straight axis, instead its axis is tilted to a side at 23.5 degrees.

   Our insane professor always insists on coming to class thirty minutes before the lecture preparing some sort of obscene challenge for us to solve. He used this method to check with what level of intensity we read the reading he had given us the day before, he already assumes we all read anyways. I never read. I find that reading from books may give information and facts to store in the brain. But what is the use of these facts? Nothing, I believe one must learn from mistakes, and experiences. Only then may one truly grasp the knowledge of a specific subject. The teacher reveals the solutions to us once we returned our answers to the front. He said “If you chose to read to read yesterdays homework you should have gotten: firstly that the dipolar nature of the magnet, the fact that the magnetic force is vertical at the poles, and lastly the fact that the force is strongest at the poles.” After that I ignored the rest of his lecture…

I came to this school purely out exploration. Since I was a child I loved to leave my house and go out into the unknown for hours. It was what made me the happiest, especially when I went out and found something I’d never seen before. I cant express how much I love it. My father Adam Langley told me countless stories that his grandfather had told him when he was a kid. Most of them where of the great things his grandfather had seen and done while on his journey to America. This is what inspired me to become who I am today. The only problem is that business in this industry is low and much of the world is believed to have already been discovered. I someday wish sail the seas and find make my own discovery

To unearth earth is my greatest endeavor.