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Nouvelle Carte de la Moitie Septentrionale du Globe Terrestre montrant la Variation du Compas, ou le Merveileux accord enchaine des mouvemens regles et ne jamais cessans du vivant pourvoir Magnetique; telles qu'on les a trouvez l'An 1750 (A new map of the southern half of the earth's globe : shewing the variation of the compass, or the marvelous concatenated concurrence of the regular and never ceasing motion of the living magnetick power, as it was found in the year 1750)
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- "Rare pair of maps (see our 10997.000 for the Southern Hemisphere) showing the northern and southern hemispheres on a polar projection and illustrating magnetic variation with isogonic lines, based upon the observations of Nicolaas Van Ewyk, a captain in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1750. This is almost certainly the earliest example of... Arctic
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- David Rumsey
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- Nicolaas Van Ewyk
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