Image: Halley compass variations 1702

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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.
Title: Halley compass variations 1702
Credit: Plate 22 from Mount & Page's 1702 "Atlas Maritimus Novus, or the New Sea-Atlas." This image was found at [1], in the online map database of the Louisiana State Museum, accession number 1982.077.020
Author: Edmond Halley
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