Abstract
SOME forty years ago there appeared the second edition of the “Admiralty Manual for Deviations of the Compass,” and as the compass is “the soul of the ship,” so the teaching of that manual remains the soul ofJthe numerous works on the subject which different maritime countries have since published, albeit that chapters on cognate subjects may have been added thereto. Naturally America has provided her. quota, and this book is her latest contribution.
A Treatise on Electromagnetic Phenomena and on the Compass and its Deviations Aboard Ship.
Vol. ii. By Commander T. A. Lyons., U.S. Navy. Pp. vii + 582. (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1903.) Price 25s. 6d. net.
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C., E. A Treatise on Electromagnetic Phenomena and on the Compass and its Deviations Aboard Ship . Nature 68, 524–525 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068524b0
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