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Description: | The Scoresby collection includes some material of Scoresby Senior's, but all of William Jnr's scientific instruments and equipment, his geological and botanical samples, scientific drawings and papaers, log books from the Arctic voyages, maunscripts of his published works, a library of published works, maps, lecture material and professional and private correspondence
The Scoresby collection of 1330 items includes some material of Scoresby Senior's, but all of William Jnr's scientific instruments and equipment, his geological and botanical samples, scientific drawings and papaers, log books from the Arctic voyages, maunscripts of his published works, a library of published works, maps, lecture material and professional and private correspondence. Capt. William Scoresby, was born near Cropton in 1760 and died in 1829. A renowned whaling captain and navigator he invented the crow's nest to protect seamen from severe weather conditions when on watch in the Arctic seas. His son the Rev. William Scoresby was also born near Cropton in 1789 and lived until 1857 , also whaling captain he surveyed the coasts of Greenland and Jan Mayan island and studied the flora and fauna and ice and snowflake formations under different weather conditions. He did about 300 experiments on the effect of iron and physical force on the reliability of the magnetic compass. After 30 years at sea he joined the church. In addition to his work on magnetism he also carried out experiments on electro-magnetism and was in communication with many famous scientists of his day such as Faraday, Sir Joseph Banks, Joule and Ampere. | Subjects: | Personalia | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Telephone: | 01947 602 908 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1089 | Go to resource |
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