Plans and views of magnetic compasses, including the dipping needle built by Dr. John Lorimer (1732–1795), surgeon, mathematician, politician and cartographer. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1808.

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