Decimal compass card
Date
1855
Creator
James Masters Share (1822 - 1895, British) , Naval officer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 270mm
width (drawing): 193mm
width (drawing): 193mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plan of a compass rose showing 36 points of ten degrees.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “On a decimal compass card” by James Masters Share in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854-1855), pp.381-382.
Inscribed above in ink: ‘Decimal Compass card. By James Masters Share, R.N. author of “Great Circle Tables for North Atlantic”, “Chasing Tables”, “Distance Tables”, &c, &c.’
James Masters Share was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was Sailing Master in the sloop HMS Modeste on the Mediterranean Station when this paper was written.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “On a decimal compass card” by James Masters Share in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854-1855), pp.381-382.
Inscribed above in ink: ‘Decimal Compass card. By James Masters Share, R.N. author of “Great Circle Tables for North Atlantic”, “Chasing Tables”, “Distance Tables”, &c, &c.’
James Masters Share was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was Sailing Master in the sloop HMS Modeste on the Mediterranean Station when this paper was written.
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