"Circumpolar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... right to say he believes this world is haunted by swarms of evil spirits, without being able to produce satisfactory evidence of the fact, than he has a right to say, without adducing adequate proof, that the circumpolar antarctic ice swarms with sea-serpents. I should not like to assert positively that it does not. I imagine that no cautious biologist would say as much; but while quite open to conviction, he might properly decline ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley
... above spoken of, do not extend to the Pole; they are indeed very unequal in extent on the meridian as well as on the equator. And the area in the northern sky not embraced in them is divided into three large spaces called Yuen or enclosures, of which the field of circumpolar stars (or circle of perpetual apparition) forms one which is called ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
