Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, 1874: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature Nautilus has been a subject of conjecture and romance. Pliny and Aristotle both mentioned it in their works, and failed not to weave a most fanciful story concerning it. They supposed that two broad arms, with which the animal is equipped, were used for sails, and other arms for oars, so that the Argo nauta navigated its vessel like any skilful seaman. Even two of our own poets have fallen into the same error; Pope's lines, Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.