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Gauss publishes Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata

In 1832 Gauss’s Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata showed how to reduce Earth’s magnetic intensity to absolute mechanical units, a paper tied to the new magnetic work with Wilhelm Weber. It is not a later ‘gauss’ unit voted by a twentieth-century commission, and it is not the 1833 telegraph. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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In 1832 Gauss’s Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata showed how to reduce Earth’s magnetic intensity to absolute mechanical units, a paper tied to the new magnetic work with Wilhelm Weber. It is not a later ‘gauss’ unit voted by a twentieth-century commission, and it is not the 1833 telegraph. Weber built and shared apparatus; Gauss wrote the reduction. The row stores one measurement paper.

Context

Geomagnetism in the 1830s was Humboldt’s international hobby and a Göttingen shop. Absolute units meant a number in Göttingen could be compared with a number in a colonial station without a private needle-cult. That is a data path. It is not energy policy, not a power plant, and not SI naming after his death. Humboldt’s organising of a wider net is neighbouring labour, stored also as elite-network colour elsewhere. A later ‘gauss’ on an SI list is a committee’s instrument, not this 1832 reduction.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Why it matters

Improving data path: comparable geomagnetic numbers. High confidence on 1832. Modest weight. Later unit names, electronics, and Gaussian distributions are not this memoir. The telegraph is a different 1833 instrument. Shared apparatus with Weber is ordinary and is not erased.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 1832 intensity paper is not an SI unit committee and not a later electric motor. Mixed effects of Gauss publishes Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He wrote the 1832 absolute-intensity memoir, working with Weber’s instruments. The academy issued it. Complex author-experimenter, not a later SI committee.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactGauss publishes Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata
    2. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 15 December 1832 · verified

    A documented absolute measure of terrestrial magnetism made a geophysical quantity comparable across stations, a modest data path, not later electronics.

Evidence

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Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Wittmann, Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Gauss SocietyCopernicus Publications / History of Geo- and Space Sciences · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Göttingen Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesAkademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

The Göttingen academy is the public issuing home of the intensity memoir. Wittmann’s HGSS overview independently dates the magnetic decade with Weber and the absolute-intensity programme. Official: https://www.adw-goe.de/ (opens in a new tab). Independent: https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/11/199/2020/ (opens in a new tab). The records establish 1832 absolute intensity work. They do not establish a unique later magnetometer-industry series, or an SI vote. A number that can be compared between Göttingen and a distant station is the data claim; it is not a power plant and not a twentieth-century unit committee. A contradictory publication year would change the row.

Established: Gauss published the 1832 absolute magnetic-intensity memoir. Not established: that he chaired a later metrology bureau, or that the 1833 telegraph is this paper. A showing of a different first year would change the row.

Shared responsibility is part of Gauss publishes Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata. Naming Carl Friedrich Gauss does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1832-12-15 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

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  1. ActorCarl Friedrich Gauss
  2. contributed toFactGauss publishes Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata
  3. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Gauss publishes Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gs-magnetism-1832

https://factrail.ai/facts/gs-magnetism-1832

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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