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One of the junior officers was intrusted with the nautical observations on shipboard, as well as the astronomical and magnetical on shore.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Hence on the outermost surface of the earth magnetical bodies are slightly perverted from the true meridian.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

I do not say that this Virtue is magnetical: It seems to be of another kind.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir

Thus we are presented with two distinct magnetical phenomena: 1.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

He left his uncle's ship with a party for the sole purpose of reaching this interesting magnetical point, which a series of observations assured him could not be very far distant.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by