Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London · 1851 · 10 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesEarth SciencesPhysicsApplied GeophysicsElectromagnetismGeomagnetismPlanetary MagnetospheresThermal StructureThermal Elements
Abstract The object of the author in the present memoir is to show that, by adopting certain fundamental conceptions with respect to the terrestrial magnetic forces, the magnetic may be deduced from the thermal elements of the earth. The following are the propositions which he considers he has established by his inquiries. 1. All the magnetic elements of any place on the earth may be deduced from the thermal elements of that place; and all the great features of the distribution of the earth’s magnetism may be theoretically derived from certain prominent features in the distribution of its heat.