File:Halley compass variations 1720.jpg
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Edmond Halley's New and Correct Chart Shewing the Variations of the Compass (1701), the first chart to show lines of equal magnetic variation. See also exhibit G201:1/1 at the UK National Maritime Museum. The NMM scan may however be protected by copyright in the UK. |
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| Source | The English Pilot. The Fourth Book (London, Mount & Page, 1720). This image was found at [1], in the online exhibition Charting Neptune's Realm presented by the University of Southern Maine. |
| Author | Edmond Halley |
| Other versions | Halley compass variations 1702.jpg |
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