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Paper, 'On the influence of the moon on the magnetic declination at Toronto, St Helena, and Hobarton' by Colonel Edward Sabine

Reference number: PT/47/9

Date: 16 November 1853

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Refers to Toronto, Canada, British overseas territory St Helena, and Hobart, Australia.

Subject: Astronomy / Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture.—On the influence of the moon on the magnetic declination at Toronto, St. Helena, and Hobarton'.

Written by Sabine at Woolwich [London]. Received and read by the Royal Society on 17 November 1853.

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 6, 1854.

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PT/47/9
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16 November 1853
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22 pages
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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Paper, 'On the influence of the moon on the magnetic declination at Toronto, St Helena, and Hobarton' by Colonel Edward Sabine, 16 November 1853, PT/47/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_47_9/paper-on-the-influence-of-the-moon-on-the-magnetic-declination-at-toronto-st-helena-and-hobarton-by-colonel-edward-sabine, accessed on 09 December 2024

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