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Paper, ['Concerning the differences in the magnetic needle, on board the Investigator, arising from an alternation in the direction of the ship's head'] by Matthew Flinders in a letter to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks

Reference number: PT/1/1

Date: 30 June 1805

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Subject: Magnetism

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Concerning the differences in the magnetic needle, on board the Investigator, arising from an alteration in the direction of the ship’s head'.

Written as a letter from Matthew Flinders at Isle of France to Royal Society president Sir Joseph Banks. Read 28 March 1805.

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 1, 1832.

Reference number
PT/1/1
Earliest possible date
30 June 1805
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
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Manuscript

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Matthew Flinders

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Matthew Flinders, Paper, ['Concerning the differences in the magnetic needle, on board the Investigator, arising from an alternation in the direction of the ship's head'] by Matthew Flinders in a letter to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks, 30 June 1805, PT/1/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_1_1/paper-concerning-the-differences-in-the-magnetic-needle-on-board-the-investigator-arising-from-an-alternation-in-the-direction-of-the-ships-head-by-matthew-flinders-in-a-letter-to-the-right-hon-sir-joseph-banks, accessed on 13 May 2025

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