Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World for Magnetical Research written by William Scoresby and published by London : Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts. This book was released on 1859 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Australia and round the World for Magnetical research Edited by A Smith written by William SCORESBY (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World for Magnetical Research written by William Scoresby and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... introduction. The voyage of which this volume contains the journal was undertaken by Dr. Scoresby with the object of observing the changes which take place in the magnetic state of an iron ship proceeding from a northern to a southern magnetic latitude, and of deciding certain questions as to the best mode of correcting the deviations of the compass in such a ship. The object was one of great importance, not only as regards science but as regards humanity. To the love of science and the devotion to the cause of humanity which led Dr. Scoresby to undertake this voyage at an advanced period of his life, he may be said to have fallen a martyr. He did not live to prepare his journals for the press; and at the request of Major-General Sabine, in whose hands his papers were placed by Mrs. Scoresby and his executors, I have undertaken the office of Editor. The materials which Dr. Scoresby left consisted, besides the record of his magnetical observations, of his journal, written from day to day, and of an introductory dissertation on magnetism, of which the ms. was nearly complete. With regard to the publication of the journal some hesitation has been felt. A detailed narrative of a voyage made on a wellknown and frequented track, and diversified by no unusual incidents, may seem hardly of sufficient interest for publication; but there are considerations which lead to the conclusion that the journal may be published, and with advantage, nearly in the shape in which it was written. Dr. Scoresby had some peculiar advantages as the narrator of such a voyage. He had been a sailor by profession, and had commanded several ships in voyages to the Arctic Seas. He was afterwards a landsman for thirty years. In this interval great changes had taken place...
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World for Magnetical Research written by William Scoresby and published by London : Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts. This book was released on 1859 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Australia written by William Scoresby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of a Voyage to Australia: And Round the World, for Magnetical Research Scoresby has, with others, misunderstood Mr. Airy's meaning in a most important particular, and that his own theoretical views were thereby to some extent diverted from considera tions to which he might otherwise have attributed greater importance. If I succeed in any degree in my own object, I am confident that I shall at least be advancing what each of the parties in the controversy valued far more than the acceptance of any particular theoretical views. The points in controversy will be more easily understood if I give a short sketch of the history of our knowledge of the Deviation of the Compass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World for Magnetical Research written by William Scoresby and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Australia Circumnavigated The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator 1801 1803 Volume II written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ’Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia’s flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and ’remarks’ on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings, and Flinders’s surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The ’Memoir’ explains Flinders’ methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys.
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco written by San Francisco (Calif.). Mercantile Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1857 written by Various and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1857 Nautical Magazine includes articles on privateering, cable-laying, French shipping legislation and military developments in the Crimea and Canton.
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Download or read book The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1870 written by Various and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1870 Nautical Magazine, the last volume edited by Rear-Admiral Becher, focuses on the Suez Canal, Australia and Canada.
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