This work by William Scoresby (1789 1857) was edited by Archibald
Smith (1813 1872) and published posthumously in 1859. It is the
account of Scoresby's final voyage and last scientific study, which
took place between February and August 1856. Scoresby made his
Australian voyage on board the Royal Charter, owned by the
Liverpool and Australia Steam Navigation Company. He wished to
observe the changes that take place in the magnetic state of iron
ships travelling on a north-to-south magnetic latitude, and to
assess how magnetic changes affect the working of a compass so that
he could discover the most reliable location for it on board ship.
The first part of the work is an exposition of magnetic principles,
followed by the results and conclusions of Scoresby's experiments.
The second part contains a travel account of the actual voyage. It
is a key work of nineteenth-century navigation science.
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