Author: LAMONT, J. (VON)
Title: Untersuchungen über die Richtung und Stärke des Erdmagnetismus an verschiedenen Puncten des südwestlichen Europa...
Description: München, F.S. Hübschmann, 1858. 4to. W. 13 pls. Contemp. black pebbled cloth, upper outer hinges splitting over 4 cm. a few chips. (tophinge sl. spl.).(198, CXVIII pp.). Pogg. I, 1362: DSB, VII, 607/9: 'A major result of his investigation of the earth's magnetism was the discovery that magnetic variations occur in periods of approximately ten years, which is the same time span that Schwabe found about 1843 for the appearance and frequency of sunspots.': Darmstaedter i.l.c.: Balmer, Beiträge 221/31. Not in Crone.

Keywords: sciences ' geodesy geology field W51Folio