Accession No

3306

Brief Description

print, reproduction of Edmund Halley’s magnetic chart of 1700, by Rand McNally and Company, 1985

Origin

Maker

Rand McNally and Company Halley, Edmund [original artist]

Class

prints; cartography; magnetism

Earliest Date

1985

Latest Date

1985

Inscription Date

1985

Material

paper

Dimensions

breadth 534mm; height 625mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated by Simon Schaffer, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, 1986.

Inscription

‘Reproduced from the Original by Rand McNally & Company, 1985, with permission of William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.’ (bottom left)
‘A New and Correct CHART shewing the VARIATIONS
of the COMPASS in the WESTERN & SOUTHERN OCEANS
as Observed in ye, Year 1700...by Edm. Halley [followed by a brief discussion of the chart]’ (on back)

Description Notes

Print, reproduction of Edmund Halley’s magnetic chart of 1700, by Rand McNally & Co., 1985

Print; colour; reproduction of Halley’s chart of 1700 showing the variation of the compass.

Condition: good; complete.

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