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Hirst shares his thoughts on a theory of the existence of a magnetic medium expressed by [John] Tyndall in Philosophical Transactions (see PT/50/1).

Subject: Magnetism

Received 14 April 1855.

Written by Hirst at Queenwood College, Hampshire [England].

This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the existence of a magnetic medium'.

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AP/36/20
Earliest possible date
10 April 1855
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Ink on paper
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Archer Hirst

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Thomas Archer Hirst, Paper, 'On the existence of a magnetic medium' by T A [Thomas Archer] Hirst, 10 April 1855, AP/36/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_36_20/paper-on-the-existence-of-a-magnetic-medium-by-t-a-thomas-archer-hirst, accessed on 01 December 2024

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