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1714 Act Of Longitude
Edmund Halley's worldmap of prevailing winds and compass variations
Nova & accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula nautica variationum magneticarum index juxta observationes anno 1700 habitas constructa, byEdmund Halley, 1730
The compass variation was one of the possible ways to find longitude at sea!
1730
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