Gauss and the Royal Society: The reception of his ideas on magnetism in Britain (1832—1842)
Karl Friedrich Gauss (1977—1855) was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (from 1804) and a recipient of the Society’s Copley Medal in 1838. His magnanimous disposition to mathematics and physics in Britain is exemplified in his contacts and regular correspondence with Fellows of the Royal Society...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rsnr.1983.0002 2024-06-02T07:57:18+00:00 Gauss and the Royal Society: The reception of his ideas on magnetism in Britain (1832—1842) 1983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1983.0002 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsnr.1983.0002 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London volume 38, issue 1, page 17-78 ISSN 0035-9149 journal-article 1983 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1983.0002 2024-05-07T14:16:32Z Karl Friedrich Gauss (1977—1855) was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (from 1804) and a recipient of the Society’s Copley Medal in 1838. His magnanimous disposition to mathematics and physics in Britain is exemplified in his contacts and regular correspondence with Fellows of the Royal Society involved in terrestrial magnetic research. Gauss’s own paper on the intensity of the terrestrial magnetic force in absolute measure (1832) was of fundamental importance in the history of geophysics. Extensive correspondence with George Biddell Airy, J. F. W. Herschel, Edward Sabine and Humphrey Lloyd led to close collaboration and the adoption of his ideas on magnetism in Britain after 1835, which had important consequences especially for the further development of geomagnetic instruments. The magnetic observatories established in the British Isles and in the colonies (1839) and the British Antarctic Expedition (1839—1843) were equipped with instruments operating on Gaussian principles. In this paper the reception of Gauss’s ideas on magnetism in Britain in the years from 1832 to 1842 is examined and selections from his and other unpublished letters to British contemporaries are presented. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic The Royal Society Antarctic Humphrey Lloyd ENVELOPE(169.450,169.450,-72.317,-72.317) Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 38 1 17 78 |
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Karl Friedrich Gauss (1977—1855) was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (from 1804) and a recipient of the Society’s Copley Medal in 1838. His magnanimous disposition to mathematics and physics in Britain is exemplified in his contacts and regular correspondence with Fellows of the Royal Society involved in terrestrial magnetic research. Gauss’s own paper on the intensity of the terrestrial magnetic force in absolute measure (1832) was of fundamental importance in the history of geophysics. Extensive correspondence with George Biddell Airy, J. F. W. Herschel, Edward Sabine and Humphrey Lloyd led to close collaboration and the adoption of his ideas on magnetism in Britain after 1835, which had important consequences especially for the further development of geomagnetic instruments. The magnetic observatories established in the British Isles and in the colonies (1839) and the British Antarctic Expedition (1839—1843) were equipped with instruments operating on Gaussian principles. In this paper the reception of Gauss’s ideas on magnetism in Britain in the years from 1832 to 1842 is examined and selections from his and other unpublished letters to British contemporaries are presented. |
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