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 ...
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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 ... 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.
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