If there was a negative declination (where magnetic north is west of true north), navigators would add the number to the compass bearing; if there was a positive declination (where magnetic north is ...

A SYSTEM of dividing the year into 16 periods, each denned by certain solar declination values having numerically equal positive and negative magnitudes, has been discussed by me in an earlier ...

Over the past few hundred years in the UK, declination has been negative, meaning that all compass needles have actually pointed west of true north. Magnetic north is the direction in which the ...