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  <dc:title>Unpublished letter, regarding the decimal compass card from James Share to W H [William Henry] Smyth</dc:title>
  <dc: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'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>18 February 1855</dc:date>
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