RefNo | PT/1/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, ['Concerning the differences in the magnetic needle, on board the Investigator, arising from an alternation in the direction of the ship's head'] by Matthew Flinders in a letter to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks |
Creator | Flinders; Matthew (1774-1814); British navigator and cartographer |
Date | 30 June 1805 |
Description | Subject: Magnetism
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Concerning the differences in the magnetic needle, on board the Investigator, arising from an alteration in the direction of the ship’s head'.
Written as a letter from Matthew Flinders at Isle of France to Royal Society president Sir Joseph Banks. Read 28 March 1805.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832. |
Extent | 20p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1805.0012 |
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0102 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |