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Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to J F W Herschel

Reference number: MM/11/184

Date: 29 September 1846

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On JA Broun's objections to the 'mode in which, in the instrument drawn up by the Committee of Physics and Meteorology, the temperature coefficients of the vertical force, or balance, magnetometer is directed to to be determined'.

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MM/11/184
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29 September 1846
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4 pages
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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to J F W Herschel, 29 September 1846, MM/11/184, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mm_11_184/letter-from-edward-sabine-woolwich-to-j-f-w-herschel, accessed on 14 August 2026

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