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Unpublished letter, regarding terrestrial magnetism from R Wolf to Edward Sabine

Reference number: AP/39/18

Date: 07 March 1857

Description

Wolf describes his observations on the connections between sunspots and variations in terrestrial magnetism.

Annotations in pencil. Marked on front as 'Proc [Proceedings]'.

Subject: Physics / Magnetism

Communicated by Sabine.

Written by Wolf in Zurich.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Extract of a letter addressed to General Sabine, R. A. Treas. and V. P. R. S., by M. R. Wolf, dated Zurich, March 7, 1857. Communicated by Gen. Sabine'.

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AP/39/18
Earliest possible date
07 March 1857
Physical description
Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

R Wolf

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R Wolf, Unpublished letter, regarding terrestrial magnetism from R Wolf to Edward Sabine, 07 March 1857, AP/39/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_18/unpublished-letter-regarding-terrestrial-magnetism-from-r-wolf-to-edward-sabine, accessed on 14 October 2024

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