Rev.d W.m Scoresby.
J.S. Colman del.t 1824.
Rare lithograph. Printed area 170 x 170mm (6¾ x 6¾"), wide margins.
A portrait in profile of English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman, William Scoresby (1789-1857). Working for his father's whaling business, Scoresby began the study of the meteorology and natural history of the polar regions, publishing sixty papers in the Royal Society list, including 'On the Anomaly in the Variation of the Magnetic Needle'. In 1822 Scoresby surveyed and charted with remarkable accuracy 400 miles of the east coast of Greenland. He left whaling in 1823, aged 33, to train for the ministry, but continued to study aspects of science, including optics. In 1850 he published a work calling for a search for the Franklin expedition.
[Ref: 43163] £130.00
Rare lithograph. Printed area 170 x 170mm (6¾ x 6¾"), wide margins.
A portrait in profile of English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman, William Scoresby (1789-1857). Working for his father's whaling business, Scoresby began the study of the meteorology and natural history of the polar regions, publishing sixty papers in the Royal Society list, including 'On the Anomaly in the Variation of the Magnetic Needle'. In 1822 Scoresby surveyed and charted with remarkable accuracy 400 miles of the east coast of Greenland. He left whaling in 1823, aged 33, to train for the ministry, but continued to study aspects of science, including optics. In 1850 he published a work calling for a search for the Franklin expedition.
[Ref: 43163] £130.00