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WHEN the mean horizontal force of the earth's magnetism for each day of the year has been deduced from well-corrected observations of the bifilar magnetometer, and the results have been projected in the usual way, the curves thus obtained show successions of maxima and minima occurring in some instances at nearly equal intervals and in others abruptly and apparently without law. It has been found that these changes are experienced similarly at all stations where observatories have been placed on the earth's surface; they are therefore variations of the magnetic force of the whole earth. The results now considered, though derived from the observations at a single station, may thus be accepted as true generally for all places.
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BROUN, J. The Effects of the Sun's Rotation and the Moon's Revolution on the Earth's Magnetism . Nature 13, 328–329 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013328a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/013328a0