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.

  • Whiston, William, 1667-1752.
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MDCCXXI. [1721]
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London : printed for J. Senex, at the Globe in Salisbury-Court; and W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXI. [1721]

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[4],xxviii,115,[5],iv,[2],43,[1]p.,plate : ill.,map ; 80.

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