Paper, 'On irregularities observed in the direction of the compass needles, of HMS Isabella and Alexander in their late voyage of discovery, caused by the attraction of the iron contained in them' by Captain Edward Sabine
Reference number: PT/13/10
Date: 1819
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10 manuscript pages also containing two plates showing errors in the compasses of the two ships.
Subject: Navigation / Magnetism
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On irregularities observed in the direction of the compass needles of H. M. S. Isabella and Alexander, in their late voyage of discovery, and caused by the attraction of the iron contained in the ships'.
Read 18 February 1819.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
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- PT/13/10
- Earliest possible date
- 1819
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edward Sabine, Paper, 'On irregularities observed in the direction of the compass needles, of HMS Isabella and Alexander in their late voyage of discovery, caused by the attraction of the iron contained in them' by Captain Edward Sabine, 1819, PT/13/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_10/paper-on-irregularities-observed-in-the-direction-of-the-compass-needles-of-hms-isabella-and-alexander-in-their-late-voyage-of-discovery-caused-by-the-attraction-of-the-iron-contained-in-them-by-captain-edward-sabine, accessed on 13 July 2025
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