Paper, 'On the means adopted in the British colonial magnetic observatories for determining the absolute values, secular change and annual variation of the magnetic force' by Lieut Colonel Edward Sabine
Reference number: PT/37/8
Date: 05 February 1850
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Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the means adopted in the British colonial magnetic observatories for determining the absolute values, secular change, and annual variation of the magnetic force'.
Written by Sabine in Hastings [East Sussex]. Received by the Royal Society on 6 February 1850. Read 25 April 1850.
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 5, 1851.
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- 05 February 1850
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- 44 pages
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Edward Sabine, Paper, 'On the means adopted in the British colonial magnetic observatories for determining the absolute values, secular change and annual variation of the magnetic force' by Lieut Colonel Edward Sabine, 05 February 1850, PT/37/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_37_8/paper-on-the-means-adopted-in-the-british-colonial-magnetic-observatories-for-determining-the-absolute-values-secular-change-and-annual-variation-of-the-magnetic-force-by-lieut-colonel-edward-sabine, accessed on 23 March 2025
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