Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... determinations published by Bessel in the year 1841 , the mean value of the dimensions of our planet was , according to a careful investigation of ten mea early death has proved a severe loss to science , in Poggendorff's Annalen der ...
... determinations published by Bessel in the year 1841 , the mean value of the dimensions of our planet was , according to a careful investigation of ten mea early death has proved a severe loss to science , in Poggendorff's Annalen der ...
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... determinations , whilst the other gave the axes of the ob late spheroid , which seemed to correspond most closely to ... determination of the metre ; and for the mean length of a meridian degree , 57013.109 toises , which is about 0.611 ...
... determinations , whilst the other gave the axes of the ob late spheroid , which seemed to correspond most closely to ... determination of the metre ; and for the mean length of a meridian degree , 57013.109 toises , which is about 0.611 ...
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... determinations , the length of the metre was determined at 0.5130740 of a toise , while according to Bessel's last determination it ought to be 0.5131180 of a toise . The difference for the length of the metre is , therefore , 0.038 of ...
... determinations , the length of the metre was determined at 0.5130740 of a toise , while according to Bessel's last determination it ought to be 0.5131180 of a toise . The difference for the length of the metre is , therefore , 0.038 of ...
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... determination of the figure of the earth . This is based upon the action which the earth exerts upon the motion of the moon , or in other words upon the inequalities in lunar longitudes and latitudes . Laplace , who was the first to ...
... determination of the figure of the earth . This is based upon the action which the earth exerts upon the motion of the moon , or in other words upon the inequalities in lunar longitudes and latitudes . Laplace , who was the first to ...
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... determination of time , and after a neglect of six hundred years the same method was again adopted by Galileo , and Father Riccioli at Bologna.13 The pendulum in conjunction with a system of wheels used to regulate the clocks ( which ...
... determination of time , and after a neglect of six hundred years the same method was again adopted by Galileo , and Father Riccioli at Bologna.13 The pendulum in conjunction with a system of wheels used to regulate the clocks ( which ...
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