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RefNoPT/73/11/1
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TitleDiagram, apparatus for examining effect of temperature on intensity of magnetic forces by C C Christie
Date[1824]
DescriptionPlate 1, figures 1-3 showing an overview and details of an apparatus employed by Samuel Hunter Christie to examine the effect of temperature on the intensity of magnetic forces. Inscribed with publication and plate details. An ink inscription in the top right corner reads '36. JFWH [John Frederick William Herschel]'. Signed in ink lower left 'C. C. Christie delin.' Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the effects of temperature on the intensity of magnetic forces; and on the diurnal variation of the terrestrial magnetic intensity' by Samuel Hunter Christie.

Read to the Royal Society on 17 June 1824.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk and ink wash on paper
Dimensions280x225mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1825.0002
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0248
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8168Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician1784 - 1865
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