Carte des déclinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimantée rédigée d'apr es la table des observations magnétiques faites par les voyageurs depuis l'année 1775
Abstract/Contents
- Table of contents
- No. 1. [Europe, northwestern Africa, Newfoundland, Labrador, and northeastern South America] -- No. 2. [Southwestern coast of Africa and eastern coast of South America] -- No. 3. [Coasts of Indian Ocean from Cape of Good Hope to China] -- No. 4. [Coasts of Pacific Ocean from Philippines to Bering Sea] -- No. 5. [North America] -- No. 6. [Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea] -- No. 7. [Pacific Ocean showing western coast of South America and Society Islands] -- No. 8. [Northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere].
Description
| Sheet no. 8: | Carte magnétique des deux hemisph eres |
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| Spine title of portfolio: | Magnetic hydrographic charts |
| Type of resource | cartographic |
| Form | map; unmediated; sheet |
| Extent | 8 maps ; on sheets 65 x 96 cm or smaller, in portfolio 68 x 65 cm |
| Place | [Paris] |
| Publisher | [publisher not identified] |
| Publication date | [1788] |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | French |
| Map data | Scale [ca. 1:20,000,000]. At equator.Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000] ; W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°). |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788 |
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Subjects
| Subject | Geomagnetism > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
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| Subject | World maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Geomagnetism |
| Subject | World maps |
| Genre | Map |
| Genre | Cartographic image-cri |
| Genre | Early works. |
| Genre | Maps |
Bibliographic information
| Note | Includes note. |
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| Note | Sheet no. 8 consists of 2 hemispheres each in 46 cm. in diam. |
| Local note | Map of 8 charts which records the first detailed documentation of the earth's magnetism. It was probably compiled from the reports of La Perouse's last voyage in the Pacific and is by Jean-Charles Borda. |
| Local note | Watermarks "J. Honig & Zoonen." |
| LCCN | 99463795 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qx881kh6372 |
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