Paper, 'Some new magnetical experiments' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Reference number: CLP/18ii/8
Date: 1715
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Desaguliers describes experiments undertaken to observe whether 'points in a wire touch'd by a loadstone, would keep the same distances after the wire was made longer by being drawn thro a smaller hole in the wire drawer's steel tool, or whether the distances would encrease in the same proportion as the wire was lengthen'd.'
Subject: Physics / Magnetism
Read to the Royal Society on 10 February 1715
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- CLP/18ii/8
- Earliest possible date
- 1715
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- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Theophilus Desaguliers, Paper, 'Some new magnetical experiments' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers, 1715, CLP/18ii/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18ii_8/paper-some-new-magnetical-experiments-by-j-t-john-theophilus-desaguliers, accessed on 23 January 2026
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