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RefNoPT/32/10/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, arrangements of magnets used in apparatus by George Whitehead Hearn
CreatorHearn; George Whitehead (1812-1851); mathematician; Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Date[1847]
DescriptionThree figures showing arrangements of magnets in relation to the Cavendish apparatus.

Subject: Geodesy / Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the cause of the discrepancies observed by Mr. Baily with the Cavendish apparatus for determining the mean density of the earth'.

Communicated by Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel. Received by the Royal Society on 11 February 1847. Read 11 March 1847.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0116
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1847.0012
RelatedRecordPT/32/10
PT/32/10
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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