Failures of the magnetic research on the Discovery Antarctic expedition 1901-1904
The Discovery expedition (19011904) led the wave of Antarctic expeditions at the turn of the twentieth century that mixed geographical exploration with scientific enquiry. The prime scientific activity was research into terrestrial magnetism, so the Discovery was constructed as a magnetic observator...
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10453/29346 |