The instruments of expeditionary science and the reworking of nineteenth-century magnetic experiment

• Main Author: Gillin, Edward J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ROYAL SOC 2022
• Subjects: terrestrial magnetism; survey science; experiment; Magnetic Crusade; navy; standardization; Antarctic; Cornwall; Needles The; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10158163/1/rsnr.2022.0002.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10158163/

During the mid-nineteenth century, British naval expeditions navigated the world as part of the most extensive scientific undertaking of the age. Between 1839 and the early 1850s, the British government orchestrated a global surveying of the Earth's magnetic phenomena: this was a philosophical...