| Description | Share describes his invention, the decimal compass card, 'an attempt to innovate on an old custom', and suggests the substitution of a compass card containing 36 points of ten degrees each, with every degree being one-tenth of a point.
Includes two pages of illustrations and a print advertisement for the decimal compass card.
Subject: Navigation / Marine engineering
Received 23 April 1855. Communicated by Smyth.
Written by Share in Corfu [Greece].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a decimal compass card'. |