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Paper, 'Paper about the magnet' by Thomas Henshaw

Reference number: CLP/9ii/8

Date: 25 April 1683

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Henshaw details his experiment conducted with a foot-long iron bar to show that the bar has a different direction or polarity at either end as it is turned to and from the Earth. This experiment corroborates Edmund Halley's findings.

Subject: Magnetism

Reference number
CLP/9ii/8
Earliest possible date
25 April 1683
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Henshaw

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Thomas Henshaw, Paper, 'Paper about the magnet' by Thomas Henshaw, 25 April 1683, CLP/9ii/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9ii_8/paper-paper-about-the-magnet-by-thomas-henshaw, accessed on 16 January 2026

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