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RefNoAP/16/8
Previous numbersAP.16.8
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Causes de la variation diurne de l'Aiguille aimantée, de la lumière zodiacale, des Aurores Boreales, et méthode simplifiée pour le relèvement des longitudes' [Causes of the diurnal variation of the magnetic needle, of the zodiacal light, of the Aurora Borealis, and simplified method for the bearing of longitudes] by Demouville
Date1836
DescriptionDemouville shares observations on magnetic needle experiments. Marked as 'archive' by John George Children.

Subject: Magnetism

Received 28 February 1836. Read 15 June 1836.

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 'Causes de la variation diurne de l'Aiguille aimantée, de la lumière zodiacale, des Aurores Boreales, et méthode simplifiée pour le relèvement des longitudes' [attributed to Demonville].
LanguageFrench
Extent12p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0298
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