Sir Edward Sabine

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Served in the Royal Artillery and appointed astronomer to the Arctic expeditions of Sir John Ross (1818) and Sir William Parry (1819) in search of the Northwest Passage. In 1821, he began experiments in Africa, North America and the Arctic to determine the Earth's shape more precisely by observing the motion of a pendulum. He published the first results in 1825 and then oversaw the establishment of magnetic observatories throughout the world. In 1852, he discovered that the variation of sunspots correlates with changes in magnetic disturbances on Earth and thus was able to show a relation between these two phenomena. Sabine was president of the Royal Society of London from 1861 until 1871.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir Edward Sabine

Date

1850

Medium

oil on millboard

Measurements

H 37.8 x W 32.1 cm

Accession number

907

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Jane, Lady Franklin, 1892

Work type

Painting

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