The longitude and latitude found by the inclinatory or dipping needle : wherein the laws of magnetism are also disover'd. To which is prefix'd, An Historical Preface; and to which is subjoin'd, Mr. Robert Norman's New attractive, or account of the first invention of the dipping needle. By Will. Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whiston, William, 1667-1752.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geomagnetism.

Dip needles.

Dip needles--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],xxviii,115,[5],iv,[2],43,[1]p.,plate ) ill.,map ;

Other Title:

Longitude and latitude found by the inclinatory or dipping needle

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Senex, at the Globe in Salisbury-Court; and W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXI. [1721]

Notes:

'The newe attractive .. ' has its own titlepage with separate register and pagination.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T56217.

OCLC:

642632307