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Paper, 'Account of a treatise entitled "Calculations and tables relating to the attractive virtue of loadstones, etc"' by Lord Paisley [James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn]

Reference number: CLP/22ii/31

Date: 1730

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Printed in 1729. Discusses the weights and dimensions of loadstones [lodestone].

Subject: Geology, Magnetics

Reference number
CLP/22ii/31
Earliest possible date
1730
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Hamilton

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James Hamilton, Paper, 'Account of a treatise entitled "Calculations and tables relating to the attractive virtue of loadstones, etc"' by Lord Paisley [James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn], 1730, CLP/22ii/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_22ii_31/paper-account-of-a-treatise-entitled-calculations-and-tables-relating-to-the-attractive-virtue-of-loadstones-etc-by-lord-paisley-james-hamilton-7th-earl-of-abercorn, accessed on 18 April 2026

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