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61:'s balls, Heeling error magnets and Horizontal magnets, a deviation card, or graph, is produced. This card, or graph, lists the deviation for various compass courses and is referred to by the navigator when compass courses need to be corrected. 142: 138:"Concerning the Differences in the Magnetic Needle, on Board the Investigator, Arising from an Alteration in the Direction of the Ship's Head" 99: 72:. He discovered the addition of a bar of iron would compensate for errors caused by his cargo during his travels to Australia. 50:, where deviations caused by this inherent magnetism are negated by the use of horizontal (or quadrantal) correctors. 58: 217: 222: 197: 17: 175: 8: 89: 54: 171: 151: 133: 65: 201: 46:
inherent within a ship and is usually calibrated as part of the process known as
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cannot be counteracted through the use of Flinders bar,
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Flinders Bar
iron
compass
binnacle
magnetism
compass point
Kelvin
Matthew Flinders
Royal Navy
Bowditch, Nathaniel
American Practical Navigator
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Flinders, Matthew
"Concerning the Differences in the Magnetic Needle, on Board the Investigator, Arising from an Alteration in the Direction of the Ship's Head"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
doi
10.1098/rstl.1805.0012
Flinders, Matthew
A voyage to Terra Australis: Volume 2, Appendix II
Flinders education unit
Archived
Wayback Machine
Categories
Sailing ship components
Navigational equipment

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