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Reference numberAP/19/21
Previous numbersAP.19.21
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the probable position of the south magnetic pole' by Edward Rudge
Date1835
DescriptionPaper written by Rudge following reading of the experiments detailed by Captain James Clark Ross, which led to the important discovery of the north magnetic pole, and which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of 1834. Includes table of observations of the magnetic needle made by Captain Abel Tasman from the beginning to the termination of his voyage, extracted from his journal of 1642.

Subject: Magnetism

Received 2 February 1835. Read 19 February 1835.

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 probable position of the south magnetic pole'.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0190
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1834.0005
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7948Ross; Sir; James Clark (1800 - 1862)1800 - 1862
NA2832Rudge; Edward (1763 - 1846)1763 - 1846
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