Paper, 'The use of a new azimuth compass for finding the variation of the compass or magnetic needle at sea, with greater ease and exactness, than by any ever yet contrived for that purpose' by Captain Christopher Middleton
Reference number: CLP/9ii/31
Date: 1739
Description
Middleton describes how to create a new azimuth compass to aid in finding the variation of the magnetic needle whilst at sea.
Subject: Navigation / Magnetism
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The use of a nem azimuth compass for finding the variation of the compass or magnetic needle at sea, with greater ease and exactness than by any ever yet contriv’d for that purpose'.
Read to the Royal Society on 7 June 1739.
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- CLP/9ii/31
- Earliest possible date
- 1739
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- Page extent
- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Christopher Middleton, Paper, 'The use of a new azimuth compass for finding the variation of the compass or magnetic needle at sea, with greater ease and exactness, than by any ever yet contrived for that purpose' by Captain Christopher Middleton, 1739, CLP/9ii/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9ii_31/paper-the-use-of-a-new-azimuth-compass-for-finding-the-variation-of-the-compass-or-magnetic-needle-at-sea-with-greater-ease-and-exactness-than-by-any-ever-yet-contrived-for-that-purpose-by-captain-christopher-middleton, accessed on 17 July 2025
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Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
1666-1738 Reference number: CLP/9ii
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