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Note, relating to Charles Chambers' paper on the sun's magnetic action by Professor W [William] Thomson

Reference number: PT/69/10

Date: 01 October 1863

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Note published as postscript in Charles Chambers' paper on the sun's magnetic action on the earth.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the nature of the sun’s magnetic action upon the earth'.

Received by the Royal Society on 28 October 1863.

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PT/69/10
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01 October 1863
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomson

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William Thomson, Note, relating to Charles Chambers' paper on the sun's magnetic action by Professor W [William] Thomson, 01 October 1863, PT/69/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_69_10/note-relating-to-charles-chambers-paper-on-the-suns-magnetic-action-by-professor-w-william-thomson, accessed on 22 March 2025

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    The 'Philosophical Transactions' collection comprises manuscript versions of papers published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first and longest continuously running journal dedicated to science.

    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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