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Description Edmond Halley's New and Correct Chart Shewing the Variations of the Compass (1701), the first chart to show lines of equal magnetic variation.

See also exhibit G201:1/1 at the UK National Maritime Museum. The NMM scan may however be protected by copyright in the UK.
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Source Plate 22 from Mount & Page's 1702 "Atlas Maritimus Novus, or the New Sea-Atlas."

This image was found at [1], in the online map database of the Louisiana State Museum, accession number 1982.077.020
Author Edmond Halley
Other versions Halley compass variations 1720.jpg

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