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Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the lunar-diurnal magnetic variation at Toronto'.

Received by the Royal Society on 13 June 1856. Read 19 June 1856.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/53/4
Earliest possible date
1856
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Ink on paper
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Paper, 'On the lunar-diurnal magnetic varation at Toronto' by Major General Edward Sabine, 1856, PT/53/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_53_4/paper-on-the-lunar-diurnal-magnetic-varation-at-toronto-by-major-general-edward-sabine, accessed on 23 March 2025

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