| RefNo | PT/13/10/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, 'Errors in the Isabella's compass Shetland' by unknown artist |
| Date | [1819] |
| Description | Figure 1 showing a diagram of the error seen in the compass on HMS Isabella in Shetland, Scotland.
Subject: Navigation / Magnetism
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On irregularities observed in the direction of the compass needles of H. M. S. Isabella and Alexander, in their late voyage of discovery, and caused by the attraction of the iron contained in the ships'.
Read 18 February 1819. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink diagram on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0104 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0010 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/13/10 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8279 | Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883) | 1788 - 1883 |