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An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle, with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the earth, as it was proposed to the Royal Society in one of their late meetings / By Edmund Halley.
Edmond HalleyDate: 1708- Books
The longitude and latitude found by the inclinatory or dipping needle : wherein the laws of magnetism are also discover'd : to which is prefix'd, An historical preface : and to which is subjoin'd, Mr. Robert Norman's New attractive, or, Account of the first invention of the dipping needle / by Will. Whiston.
William WhistonDate: 1721- Books
Latitude & the magnetic earth : the true story of Queen Elizabeth's most distinguished man of science / Stephen Pumfrey.
Stephen PumfreyDate: 2001
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William Gilbert, and terrestrial magnetism in the time of Queen Elizabeth : a discourse / by Silvanus P. Thompson.
Silvanus P. ThompsonDate: 1903
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The triumphal chariot of friction, or a familiar elucidation of the origin of magnetic attraction. &c. &c / by William Pope ... ; with plates from drawings made by the author.
Pope, WilliamDate: 1829