Plans and views of magnetic compasses with dipping needles

Plans and views of magnetic compasses, including the dipping needle built by Dr. John Lorimer (1732-1795), surgeon, mathematician, politician and cartographer. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1808. Plans and views of magnetic compasses, including the dipping needle built by Dr. John Lorimer (1732-1795), surgeon, mathematician, politician and cartographer. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1808

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