Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- INTRODUCTION
- EXPOSITION OF MAGNETICAL PRINCIPLES, AND OF THE PHENOMENA OF MAGNETISM AND COMPASS-ACTION AND DISTURBANCE IN IRON SHIPS
- CHAPTER I GENERAL MAGNETICAL PRINCIPLES AND PHENOMENA
- CHAPTER II ON THE INDUCTIVE OR MAGNETIC DEVELOPMENT POWER OF THE MAGNET.–MAGNETISATION, WITH NEW AND POWERFUL PROCESSES
- CHAPTER III MAGNETICAL APPARATUS.–IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOUND MAGNETS.–MAGNETIC MACHINES, AND COMPASS NEEDLES
- CHAPTER IV TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM; ITS DIRECTIVE ACTION ON THE COMPASS AND DIPPING NEEDLE
- CHAPTER V TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM, AS TO ITS INDUCTIVE EFFECTS ON IRON, WITH THE AUGMENTATION OF THE POLARITY THUS ELICITED BY MECHANICAL ACTION
- CHAPTER VI ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PHENOMENA OF THE MAGNETISM IN IRON SHIPS, AS TO ITS ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTION OF POLAR FORCE AND EQUATORIAL PLANE, AND SUBSEQUENT CHANGES
- CHAPTER VII OBJECTIONS SUGGESTED AGAINST THE FOREGOING THEORETIC PRINCIPLES.–REFUTATION, BY FACTS AND EXPERIMENTS, OF MANY OF THE OBJECTIONS, AND PROPOSAL OF A PLAN FOR THE TESTING OF THE ENTIRE THEORY
- NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE
- Plate section
CHAPTER V - TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM, AS TO ITS INDUCTIVE EFFECTS ON IRON, WITH THE AUGMENTATION OF THE POLARITY THUS ELICITED BY MECHANICAL ACTION
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- INTRODUCTION
- EXPOSITION OF MAGNETICAL PRINCIPLES, AND OF THE PHENOMENA OF MAGNETISM AND COMPASS-ACTION AND DISTURBANCE IN IRON SHIPS
- CHAPTER I GENERAL MAGNETICAL PRINCIPLES AND PHENOMENA
- CHAPTER II ON THE INDUCTIVE OR MAGNETIC DEVELOPMENT POWER OF THE MAGNET.–MAGNETISATION, WITH NEW AND POWERFUL PROCESSES
- CHAPTER III MAGNETICAL APPARATUS.–IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOUND MAGNETS.–MAGNETIC MACHINES, AND COMPASS NEEDLES
- CHAPTER IV TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM; ITS DIRECTIVE ACTION ON THE COMPASS AND DIPPING NEEDLE
- CHAPTER V TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM, AS TO ITS INDUCTIVE EFFECTS ON IRON, WITH THE AUGMENTATION OF THE POLARITY THUS ELICITED BY MECHANICAL ACTION
- CHAPTER VI ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PHENOMENA OF THE MAGNETISM IN IRON SHIPS, AS TO ITS ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTION OF POLAR FORCE AND EQUATORIAL PLANE, AND SUBSEQUENT CHANGES
- CHAPTER VII OBJECTIONS SUGGESTED AGAINST THE FOREGOING THEORETIC PRINCIPLES.–REFUTATION, BY FACTS AND EXPERIMENTS, OF MANY OF THE OBJECTIONS, AND PROPOSAL OF A PLAN FOR THE TESTING OF THE ENTIRE THEORY
- NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE
- Plate section
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1859