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'New and exact Table collected from several Observations taken in four voyages to Hudsons Bay in North America from London shewing the Variation of the Magnetical Needle or Sea Compass in the Pathway to the said Bay according to the Several Latitudes and Longitudes from the year 1721 to 1725 to Christopher Middleton

Reference number: RBO/12/24

Date: 1725

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Read to the Royal Society on 17 February 1725

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RBO/12/24
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1725
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'New and exact Table collected from several Observations taken in four voyages to Hudsons Bay in North America from London shewing the Variation of the Magnetical Needle or Sea Compass in the Pathway to the said Bay according to the Several Latitudes and Longitudes from the year 1721 to 1725 to Christopher Middleton, 1725, RBO/12/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_12_24/new-and-exact-table-collected-from-several-observations-taken-in-four-voyages-to-hudsons-bay-in-north-america-from-london-shewing-the-variation-of-the-magnetical-needle-or-sea-compass-in-the-pathway-to-the-said-bay-according-to-the-several-latitudes-and-longitudes-from-the-year-1721-to-1725-to-christopher-middleton, accessed on 15 March 2026

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