| RefNo | AP/15/11/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'Paper on the determination of the thickness of solid substances, not otherwise measurable, by magnetic deviation' by W [William] Scoresby |
| Date | [1831] |
| Description | Scoresby's paper is written in three parts:
- 'On the permeability of all known substances by the magnetic influence, and the application of the fact in engineering and mining operations, for the determination of the thickness of solid substances, not otherwise measurable';
- 'The law of the directive power of bar magnets, at different distances';
- 'On the practical application of the magnetic influence in engineering and mining operations, in order to the determination of the thickness of solid substances not otherwise measurable'.
John George Children's initials appear below the date read. Annotations and corrections appear throughout in ink and graphite.
Subject: Physics / Engineering
Read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1831.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the determination of the thickness of solid substances, not otherwise measurable, by magnetic deviations'. |
| Extent | 124p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0039 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/15/11 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6138 | Scoresby; William (1789 - 1857) | 1789 - 1857 |