Letter, 'Of the variation of the magnetic needle' from Petrus Wargentin to Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: L&P/2/104
Date: 01 May 1750
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Five pages in Latin and six pages of English translation.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden, to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. et R. S. Sec. concerning the variation of the magnetic needle'
Read 21 February 1751
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- L&P/2/104
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- 01 May 1750
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- 11 pages
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Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Letter, 'Of the variation of the magnetic needle' from Petrus Wargentin to Cromwell Mortimer, 01 May 1750, L&P/2/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_104/letter-of-the-variation-of-the-magnetic-needle-from-petrus-wargentin-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 16 January 2026
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XVII. A letter from the Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden, to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. et R. S. Sec. concerning the variation of the magnetic needle External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1752
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1751.0018
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