| RefNo | PT/13/7 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'On the anomaly in the variation of the magnetic needle as observed on ship-board' by Wm [William] Scoresby |
| Date | 3 November 1818 |
| Description | Includes a manuscript annotation by Thomas Young. Accompanying letter from Scoresby to Sir Joseph Banks found at PT/13/8.
Subject: Navigation / Magnetism
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the anomaly in the variation of the magnetic needle as observed on ship-board'.
Written by Scoresby at Whitby. Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 4 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. |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0407 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0008 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/13/8 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6138 | Scoresby; William (1789 - 1857) | 1789 - 1857 |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |
| NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |