VI. On the anomaly in the variation of the magnetic needle as observed on ship-board

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1819
• Subjects: Flinders; Bain; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1819.0008; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1819.0008

The anomalies discovered in magnetical observations con­ducted on ship-board, were usually attributed to the imper­fection of the azimuth compass, until Captain Flinders, in his modest and enlightened paper on this subject, published in the Philosophical Transactions, suggested that they were probab...