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RefNoPT/13/10
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'On irregularities observed in the direction of the compass needles, of HMS Isabella and Alexander in their late voyage of discovery, caused by the attraction of the iron contained in them' by Captain Edward Sabine
Date[1819]
Description10 manuscript pages also containing two plates showing errors in the compasses of the two ships.

Subject: Navigation / Magnetism

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On irregularities observed in the direction of the compass needles of H. M. S. Isabella and Alexander, in their late voyage of discovery, and caused by the attraction of the iron contained in the ships'.

Read 18 February 1819.

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 2, 1833.
Extent10p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0104
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0010
RelatedRecordPT/13/10/1
PT/13/10/2
PT/13/10/3
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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