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" As the result of his researches, he published a general chart, showing at one view the variation of the compass in all those seas where the English navigators were acquainted. "
Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 146
edited by - 1835
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Bulletin of Bibliography & Magazine Notes, Volume 4

Bibliography - 1904 - 184 pages
...variation of the magnetical compass. London, 1683. Tabulae nautica. 1700. Fol. A general chart; shewing at one view, the variation of the compass in all those seas where English navigators were acquainted. 1701. Conicorum, libri iii, posteriores, ex Sermone Arabico in...
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A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750

Anders Hald - Mathematics - 2005 - 611 pages
...and on a two years' voyage as captain of a small ship he traversed the Atlantic and made a chart of the variation of the compass "in all those seas where the English Navigators were acquainted." Hal ley's many observations of positions of the stars, the planets, the moon, and the comets led him...
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Swedenborg's Secret: The Meaning and Significance of the Word of God, the ...

Lars Bergquist - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 560 pages
...Politica ad moderniorum imperii Sueo-Gothici Statum accommodata (Aboae, 1657), rare, 8vo. N HALLEY, E, General Chart, showing at one view the variation of the compass in all those seas with which the English navigators were acquainted ( 1 70 1 ) [ PR I ] . N — (ed.) , Miscellanea Curiosa,...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 534 pages
...making important observations at numerous stations, he returned to England in September 1700. As the result of his researches, he published a general chart,...seas where the English navigators were acquainted ; and thus laid the foundation of that department of science which has since received the attention...
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