File:Halley compass variations 1702.jpg
Summary
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley" class="extiw" title="w:Edmond Halley">Edmond Halley</a>'s New and Correct Chart Shewing the Variations of the Compass (1701), the first chart to show lines of equal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/magnetic_declination" class="extiw" title="w:magnetic declination">magnetic variation</a>.
See also exhibit <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=G201%3A1%2F1">G201:1/1</a> at the UK <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maritime_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:National Maritime Museum">National Maritime Museum</a>. The NMM scan may however be protected by copyright in the UK.
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| current | 14:02, 7 January 2017 | | 642 × 800 (150 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley" class="extiw" title="w:Edmond Halley">Edmond Halley</a>'s <i>New and Correct Chart Shewing the Variations of the Compass</i> (1701), the first chart to show lines of equal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/magnetic_declination" class="extiw" title="w:magnetic declination">magnetic variation</a>. <p>See also exhibit <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=G201%3A1%2F1">G201:1/1</a> at the UK <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maritime_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:National Maritime Museum">National Maritime Museum</a>. The NMM scan may however be protected by copyright in the UK. </p> |
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