Article ID: CBB000064221

“Compasses all awry”: The iron ship and the ambiguity of cultural authority in Victorian Britain (1994)

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Description On the moral and religious issues involved in the debates over disasters at sea caused by the irregularities in compasses due to iron in ships. Discusses George Airy and William Scoresby as rivals in the debates.


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Authors & Contributors
Belteki, Daniel
Smith, Robert William
Gillin, Edward J.
Stanley, Matthew
Keer, Norman C.
Cliver, Edward W.
Concepts
Ships and shipbuilding
Astronomy
Science
Whaling
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Solar prominences; solar flares
Time Periods
19th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
United States
Institutions
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Royal Society of London
Cambridge University
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