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Paper, 'On some new methods of suspending magnetical needles' by John Ingenhousz

Reference number: L&P/7/115

Date: 1779

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Contains one plate.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On some new methods of suspending magnetical needles'

Read 17 June 1779

Reference number
L&P/7/115
Earliest possible date
1779
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Ingenhousz

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John Ingenhousz, Paper, 'On some new methods of suspending magnetical needles' by John Ingenhousz, 1779, L&P/7/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_115/paper-on-some-new-methods-of-suspending-magnetical-needles-by-john-ingenhousz, accessed on 08 February 2026

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