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Halley's Quest For most people, Edmond Halley is best known for accurately predicting the periodic appearance of the comet that ultimately would bear his name. This book emphasizes the drama of Halley's mission and the passion of an era hungry for the stories science had to tell.
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For most people, Edmond Halley is best known for accurately predicting the periodic appearance of the comet that ultimately would bear his name. But his greatest achievement may have been overlooked indeed few people know that it was Halley who solved the riddle of accurate navigation for all sea-going vessels. As seventeenth-century scientists gradually came to believe that the inside of the Earth was magnetized they were puzzled by the fact magnetic north not only varied slightly from place to place, but gradually changed over time, suggesting a slow variation of the Earth's magnetic field. But if the Earth was permanently magnetized, how could its magnetism vary? Edmond Halley, Britain's Astronomer Royal, ingeniously proposed that the Earth contained a number of spherical shells, one inside the other, each magnetized differently, each slowly rotating in relation to the others. This brilliant deduction earned Halley the command of a small sailing ship, the 52-foot Paramore, and with it, a royal mandate. Halley was to sail forth to stand so far into the South, till you discover the Coast of the Terra Incognita.
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- PublisherHenry (Joseph) Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0309095948
- ISBN 13 9780309095945
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages278
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