Paper, 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass needles and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John [Owen] Evans
Reference number: PT/63/9
Date: 1861
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Subject: Scientific Instruments
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation'.
Received by the Royal Society on 13 April 1861. Read 18 April 1861.
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 11, 1862.
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Archibald Smith, Frederick John Owen Evans, Paper, 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass needles and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John [Owen] Evans, 1861, PT/63/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_9/paper-on-the-effect-produced-on-the-deviations-of-the-compass-by-the-length-and-arrangement-of-the-compass-needles-and-on-a-new-mode-of-correcting-the-quadrantal-deviation-by-archibald-smith-and-frederick-john-owen-evans, accessed on 13 December 2024
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On the effect produced on the deviation of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1862
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1860.0037
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DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1861.0010
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Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/4/244 -
Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans
Creator: Edward Sabine Reference number: RR/4/245
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1861
September 1860 - June 1861 Reference number: PT/63
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