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How To Use Magnetic declination In A Sentence

  • The compass needle and a knowledge of magnetic declination, the angle between the magnetic north and geographic north, were developments from this knowledge; they were described by Shen Kua in 1088.
  • Proposals were being made to solve the longitude problem and in 1673 one based on magnetic declination was proposed by a certain Henry Bond.
  • On the North Rim the difference between map and compass is 15 east, a distinction known as magnetic declination.
  • He also studied magnetic declination and was the first to observe the secular variation.
  • Gellibrand's most famous scientific discovery was the change over the years in magnetic declination.

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