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Compass

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Images referencing Compass

3 images from works
  • Clocks: a universal sundial, with a compass. Engraving.
  • Magnetism: electrical equipment and magnetic phenomena. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850.
  • Printer's device on last page of Dodoens' "Stirpivm historiae.."

Works from the collections

13 works

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    An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle, with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the earth, as it was proposed to the Royal Society in one of their late meetings / By Edmund Halley.

    Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742. | Date: 1708
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    Clocks: a universal sundial, with a compass. Engraving.

    | Reference: 45214i
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    A theory of the variation of the magnetical compass / By Ed. Halley.

    Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742. | Date: 1708
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    Expériences pratiques de la boussole circulaire : faites a bord des navires de l'état et de la marine marchande / par Émile Marin Duchemin.

    Duchemin, Emile Marin. | Date: 1876
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    Mémoire sur le sujet du prix proposé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences en l'année 1729 touchant la meilleure méthode d'observer sur mer la déclinaison de l'eguille aimantée, ou la variation de la boussole / Par Monsieur Meynier.

    Meynier. | Date: 1732

Related topics

Magnetics
Geomagnetism

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