Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist)
Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts relating to Captain Edward Sabine's pendulum experiments, 1828
The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with miscellaneous accounts.
Annual Meetings, 1863-1871, 1863 - 1871
Minutes of the Annual Meetings of the Board of Visitors, 1863-1871. The folder also contains duplicate copies of the Address to the Board by the Astronomer Royal, 30 November 1847 and 3 May 1853; a report [1862] and copies of the Astronomer Royal's Address, January 1863 and 6 June 1863, regarding a controversy concerning Major-General Sabine; and the Astronomer's Royal's Addresses of 21 October 1865 and 13 March 1868.
Col. Edward Sabine on the position of the magnetic pole, 1824-03-31
Correspondence regarding the effect of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
Confirmed minutes, 1802 - 1823
Confirmed minutes, 1823 - 1829
Correspondence appointing Thomas Young, Edward Sabine and Michael Faraday to the Resident Committee after dissolution of the Board of Longitude, 1828 - 1829
Correspondence on chronometer errors and rates, 1849 - 1854
Correspondence on errors and rates of chronometers, including the foundation of time balls at Demerara and C.P. Smyth's account of the Time Ball at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. There are also enquiries on various chronometers, including those used on the 'Bounty'. The correspondents include F. Beaufort, C.P. Smyth and E. Sabine.
Correspondence on galvanic time, 1849 - 1855
Correspondence on galvanic time, 1855 - 1858
Correspondence on magnetic instruments, 1835 - 1848
Correspondence on magnetic observations, 1834 - 1848
Correspondence on magnetism and photography, 1849 - 1854
Correspondence with C. Brooke, F. Beaufort, E. Sabine and F. Ronalds concerning magnetic instruments and photographic registration. There are two circulars advertising Gray and Keen's floating compasses; specimens of photographic secondaries and tertiaries; papers regarding tests on various emulsions; and notes on the Greenwich magnetic instruments for 1853 and 1854.
Correspondence on planetary reductions, 1838 - 1847
Correspondence on planetary reductions, including official correspondence with the Government on grants for the reductions and accounts of money paid to computers. There are also reductions of Irish tide observations and accounts and receipts of wages paid out. The correspondents include J. Phillips, J.F.W. Herschel, Viscount Althorp, S.P. Rigaud, T. Spring-Rice, J. Barrow, J.W. Lubbock, F. Beaufort, J. Glaisher and E. Sabine.
Correspondence on pure mathematics, 1853 - 1854
Correspondence on scientific institutes, 1850 - 1853
Correspondence concerning various scientific institutes, giving notification of rules, meetings, reports, agendas and other matters. The correspondents include M. Faraday, J.F.W. Herschel, Lord Rosse, W. Hopkins, W. Cubitt, E.W. Brayley, B. Disraeli, R. Sheepshanks, C. Pritchard, E. Sabine, Lord Wrottesley, A. de Morgan, R.I. Murchison, C.W. Dilke, J.A. Broun and T. Bell.
Correspondence on scientific institutes, 1852 - 1854
Correspondence concerning various scientific institutes, giving notification of rules, meetings, reports, agendas and other matters. The correspondents include E.W. Brayley, M. Faraday, Lord Rosse, E. Sabine, W. Whewell, Lord Wrottesley and J. Yates. The papers also includes minutes of the council of the British Association and a copy of the lecture given by Airy at the Royal Institution 'On the results of recent calculations on the Eclipse of Thales and other eclipses connected with it'.
Correspondence on solar eclipse expeditions, 1870 - 1871
Correspondence on standards, 1858 - 1862
Correspondence on standards, 1865 - 1868
Official and general correspondence on standards. The correspondents include Sir J.F.W. Herschel, Sir J. Lefevre, Sir J.W. Lubbock, Professor W.H. Miller, Major General E. Sabine, Lord Wrottesley, W. Airy, W. De La Rue, Admiral Manners and Professor Wackenbath. The volume includes minutes of the first meeting of the Standards Commission; the first report of the Standards Commission; and papers on the decimal system of money.
Correspondence on Sydney Observatory, 1855 - 1861
Correspondence relating to the observatory at Sydney, including orders and requests for new instruments, the transport of new instruments and their insurance, the filling of vacancies, and financial transactions with the Oriental Bank Corporation. The correspondents include Sir W. Denison, W. Hopkins, W.H. Miller, E. Sabine and B. Stewart, as well as government departments and various instrument makers.
Correspondence on terrestrial longitude, 1833 - 1848
Correspondence on the Southern Telescope, 1852 - 1853
Correspondence on the Standards Commission, 1849 - 1858
Correspondence on time balls and signals, 1866 - 1870
Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1835 - 1848
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