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Paper, 'On the anomaly in the variation of the magnetic needle as observed on ship-board' by Wm [William] Scoresby

Reference number: PT/13/7

Date: 03 November 1818

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Includes a manuscript annotation by Thomas Young. Accompanying letter from Scoresby to Sir Joseph Banks found at PT/13/8.

Subject: Navigation / Magnetism

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the anomaly in the variation of the magnetic needle as observed on ship-board'.

Written by Scoresby at Whitby. Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 4 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/13/7
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03 November 1818
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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William Scoresby

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William Scoresby, Paper, 'On the anomaly in the variation of the magnetic needle as observed on ship-board' by Wm [William] Scoresby, 03 November 1818, PT/13/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_7/paper-on-the-anomaly-in-the-variation-of-the-magnetic-needle-as-observed-on-ship-board-by-wm-william-scoresby, accessed on 16 April 2026

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