Robert Norman
English mariner, compass builder, and hydrographer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Australian aviator, see Robert Norman (aviator).
Robert Norman was a 16th-century-English mariner, compass builder, and hydrographer who discovered magnetic inclination, the deviation of the Earth's magnetic field from the vertical.
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