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  <dc:title>Extract, 'Of a memoire read in the Society of Arts on the 6th of July 1732 relating to a new construction of the magnetick needle with three circles' by unknown author</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Extract from the memoir read which had been presented at the Royal Academy of Sciences on 12 May  1732, and referred to Count Maurepas [Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux] on 20 June, who requested that M de Court, Lieutenant General of the Marines examine it on his voyage to the Levant [Middle East]. This particular magnetic needle was invented by the Sieur Le Maire Engineer for the Mathematical Instrument. The extract includes a series of experiments performed with the new needle and a list of individuals who tried the compass experiment abroad.

Subject: Navigation / Magnetism

Read to the Royal Society on 4 March 1735.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1735]</dc:date>
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