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by Jules Verne
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Topsy-Turvy Summary
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Then Mr Maston, you pretend that a woman has never been able to make mathematical or experimental-science progress?" "To my extreme regret, I am obliged to, Mrs. Scorbitt," answered J.T. Maston. "That there have been some very remarkable women in mathematics, especially in Russia, I fully and willingly agree with you. But, with her cerebral conformation, she cannot become an Archimedes, much less a Newton." "Oh, Mr. Maston, allow me to protest in the name of my sex." "A sex, Mrs. Scorbitt, much too charming to give itself up to the higher studies." "Well then, according to your opinion, no woman seeing an apple fall could have discovered the law of universal gravitation, so that it would have made her the most illustrious scientific person of the seventeenth century?" "In seeing an apple fall, Mrs. Scorbitt, a woman would have but the single idea-to eat it-for example, our mother Eve." "Pshaw, I see very well that you deny us all aptitude for high speculations." "All aptitude? No, Mrs. Scorbitt, and in the meanwhile I would like to prove to you that since there are inhabitants on earth, and consequently women, there has not one feminine brain been found yet to which we owe any discoveries like those of Aristotle, Euclid, Kepler, Laplace, etc." "Is this a reason? And does the past always prove the future?" "Well, a person who has done nothing in a thousand years, without a doubt, never will do anything." "I see now that I have to take our part, Mr. Maston, and that we are not worth much." ... |
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| It was really an immense undertaking to which this rich American widow had resolved to devote large sums of money. The scheme and its expected results, briefly outlined, were as follows: The Arctic regions, accurately expressed, include according to Maltebrun, Roclus, Saint-Martin and other high authorities on geography: 1st. The northern Devon, including the ice-covered islands of Baffin's Sea and Lancaster Sound. 2d. The northern Georgia, made up of banks and numerous islands, such as the islands of Sabine, Byam-Martin, Griffith, Cornwallis, and Bathurst. 3d. The archipelago of Baffin-Parry, including different parts of the circumpolar continent, embracing Cumberland, Southampton, James-Sommerset, Boothia-Felix, Melville, and other parts nearly unknown. Of this great area, crossed by the 78th parallel, there are over 1,400,000 square miles of land and over 700,000 square miles of water. Within this area intrepid modern discoverers have advanced to the 84th-degree of latitude, reaching seacoasts lost behind the high chain of icebergs which may be called the Arctic Highlands, given names to capes, to mountains, to gulfs, to bays, etc. But beyond this 84th degree is mystery. It is the terra incognita of the chart-makers, and nobody knows as yet whether behind is hidden land or water for a distance of 6 degrees over impassable heaps of ice to the North Pole. |
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