Sentence examples for ancient charts from inspiring English sources
Sometimes he daydreamed about the beautiful ancient charts he had studied and the accounts of a marvelous pilgrimage undertaken by a Russian monk.
But in the moral cartography of anti-Communist America, they occupied an undifferentiated space like that of the oceans on ancient charts: Here be monsters.
When dark descends, the starless night seems blacker than the night before, and the seas diminish to a strange near calm, as if the ship had entered empty regions beyond all known boundaries, those voids marked 'Here Be Dragons' on the ancient charts".
But historical precedent and ancient charts can provide only a rough guide through changing winds and tides.
With a screen size measuring 5.5-inches across the diagonal, it's well into the territory labeled "phablet" on the ancient sea charts of mariners who've braved the Android waters.
Calling their project Native Trails, they set out to recreate what they could of those ancient routes, charting for modern travelers a new contiguous water trail from the top of Maine to the bottom of New York's Adirondack Park.
His Manuel de diplomatique (1894), a guide to the study of ancient documents and charts, formed the basis for later studies of the documentary history of the French Middle Ages, particularly the Carolingian period, written by Giry and his students.
However, many studies on the composition of ancient objects produce similar charts.
The numeracy that preceded literacy can be charted through ancient, geometrically shaped clay tokens some dating to about 8000 bce that have been found throughout the Middle East.
Fischer, a professor of history at Brandeis University, harks back to ancient Babylon to construct price charts.
(That business of looking up your television brand on a chart should be ancient history by now. Why don't the leading TV and VCR makers just meet for coffee and settle on a list of standard remote-control signals?) Once you've plugged in the proper code, sure enough, the watch controls your television from up to 16 feet away.
