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AuthorizedFormsOfName Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865)
Surname Christie
Forenames Samuel Hunter
DatesofExistence 1784 - 1865
Nationality British
DatesAndPlaces Birth:
90 Pall Mall, London, England (22 March 1784)
Death:
Ailsa Villa, Twickenham, London (24 January 1865)
Activity Research Field:
Magnetism
Career:
Professor of Mathematics, Woolwich Academy
RSActivity Membership:
Fellow
Election Date:
12/01/1826
Lectures:
Bakerian 1833
Council:
Sec 1837-1854
Relationships Father of Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie (FRS 1881)
Source Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1866-1867 vol 15 pp xi-xiv
References:
Ronald Anderson, 'The Referees' Assessment of Faraday's Electromagnetic Induction Paper of 1831' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 243-256
James Gabriel O'Hara, 'Gauss and the Royal Society: The Reception of His Ideas on Magnetism in Britain (1832-1842)' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 17-78
K K Schwarz, 'Faraday and Babbage' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp367-381
Notes:
Citation: one word deliberately obscured
Code NA8168

Archives associated with this Fellow

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AP/12/9

Experiments and Observations on the Rotation of an Iron Plate 18 inches in diameter as affecting the Magnetic Needle as suggested by S H Christie Esq of Woolwich

1825

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AP/17/6

On the Influence of the Sun's Rays on the Magnetic Needle

16 October 1832

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AP/17/7

Remarks on Mr Snow Harris's communication 'On the Influence of the Sun's Rays on the Magnetic Needle' by Samuel Hunter Christie

26 November 1832

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AP/20/8

Report upon a letter addressed by the Baron de Humboldt to HRH the President of the Royal Society and communicated by HRH to the Council

9 June 1836

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AP/23/10

The Structure and functions of the Spleen

1839

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AP/23/20

An Account of the Process employed in Photographic Drawing

20 February 1839

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AP/23/36

Present State of the Diamond mines of Golconda

1840

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AP/25/11

The Scholar's Lute among the Chinese

1840

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AP/27/1

On the Measurement of Distances by the Telescope

1841

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AP/27/3

An account of a large and remarkably luminous spot in the sea with remarks on the water taken thence

6 October 1843

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AP/27/24

The Theory of Vision

1 March 1845

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AP/27/25

On a Peculiar Souce of deteoriation of the magnetic power of Steel Bars

23 May 1845

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AP/29/4

On a new and practical form of Voltaic Battery of the highest powers, in which Potassium forms the positive element

November 1846

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AP/30/1

On the Disruptive Discharge of accumulated Electricity, and the Proximate Cause of Lightning

1847

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AP/30/19

A Statement of the working of compasses on board the Honourable East India Company's Iron Steamer 'Pluto'

1848

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AP/31/13

Remarks on De la Rive's Theory for the physical explanation of the causes of what produces the Diurnal Variation of the Magnetic Declination

16 April 1849

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AP/34/21

On the Extension of the value of the ratio of the Circumference of a Circle to its Diameters to 440 places at decimals

4 October 1852

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AP/36/10

The Attraction of Ellipsoids considered geometrically

19 April 1854

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EC/1825/14

Christie, Samuel Hunter

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MM/10/159

'Description of a Percussion Shell to explode at the bottom of the Sea', by John Norton

1840

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MM/14/39

Letter from William Spence, 18 Lower Seymour Street, to S H Christie

18 April 1845

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MM/17/38

Letter from Thomas Bell to Samuel Hunter Christie

17 May [1850]

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MM/21/38

Letter from the Admiralty to Samuel Hunter Christie, Royal Society

17 October 1853

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MM/22/18

Letter from the Royal Society to John Pye Smith

24 January 1840

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MS/710/23

Letter from Samuel Hunter Christie, Royal Military Academy, to Sir Charles Lemon

10 December 1837

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