| RefNo | PT/32/10/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, arrangements of magnets used in apparatus by George Whitehead Hearn |
| Creator | Hearn; George Whitehead (1812-1851); mathematician; Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
| Date | [1847] |
| Description | Three 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. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink diagrams on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0116 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1847.0012 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/32/10 |
| PT/32/10 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |