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| Description | 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 | Plate 22 from Mount & Page's 1702 "Atlas Maritimus Novus, or the New Sea-Atlas." This image was found at , in the online map database of the Louisiana State Museum, accession number 1982.077.020 |
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1702 |
| Author |
Edmond Halley |
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| Other versions | Halley compass variations 1720.jpg |
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| current | 13:44, 2 May 2008 | 642×800 (150 KB) | Jheald | ({{Information |Description= Edmond Halley's ''New and Correct Chart Shewing the Variations of the Compass'' (1701), the first chart to show lines of equal magnetic variation. <p>See also exhibit [http://www.n) |
