 | Geology - 1859 - 482 pages
...consequence of the mass being heterogeneous does not in the least affect the soundness of his conclusion. Accurate measurements of a degree of latitude in the equatorial and polar regions, with experiments on the force of gravitation in those regions, by the different lengths of a pendulum... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux, Edward John Routh - Physics - 1855 - 512 pages
...planet must be very far from homogeneous and its equatorial density greatly exceed its polar. Thus, too, accurate measurements of a degree of latitude...inference respecting the Earth, its axis being now ascertained to bear the relation, not of 230 to 229, as Newton at last concluded, nor even that of... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux, Edward John Routh - Physics - 1855 - 540 pages
...planet must be very far from homogeneous and its equatorial density greatly exceed its polar. Thus, too, accurate measurements of a degree of latitude...led to a similar inference respecting the Earth, its axisjaeiug now ascertained to bear the relation, not of 230 to 229, as Newton at last concluded, nor... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux, Edward John Routh - Physics - 1855 - 488 pages
...planet must be very far from homogeneous and its equatorial density greatly exceed its polar. Thus, too, accurate measurements of a degree of latitude...led to a similar inference respecting the Earth, its axis.being now ascertained to bear the relation, not of 230 to 229, as Xewton at last concluded, nor... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...consequence of the mass being heterogeneous, does not in the least affect the soundness of his conclusion. Accurate measurements of a degree of latitude in the equatorial and polar regions, with experiments on the force of gravitation in those regions, by the different, lengths of a pendulum... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - Physicists - 1858 - 144 pages
...consequence of the mass being hetereogenous does not in the least affect the soundness of his conclusion. Accurate measurements of a degree of latitude in the equatorial and polar regions, with experiments on the force of gravitation in those by friction. Black always spoke of that Query... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 pages
...consequence of the mass being hetereogenous does not in the least affect the soundness of his conclusion. Accurate measurements of a degree of latitude in the equatorial and polar regions, with experiments on the force of gravitation in those by friction. Black always spoke of that Query... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1859 - 450 pages
...consequence of the mass being heterogeneous does not in the least affect the soundness of his conclusion. Accurate measurements of a degree of latitude in the equatorial and polar regions, with experiments on the force of gravitation in those regions, by the different lengths of a pendulum... | |
 | Science - 1859 - 948 pages
...consequence of the mass being heterogeneous does not in the least affect the soundness of his conclusion. Accurate measurements of a degree of latitude in the equatorial and polar regions, with experiments on the force of gravitation in those regions, by the different lengths of a pendulum... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1859 - 478 pages
...the mass being heterogeneons does not in the least n fleet the sonndness of his eonelnsion. Aeeurate measurements of a degree of latitude in the equatorial and polar regions, with experiments on the foree of gravitation in those regions, by the different lengths of a pendulum... | |
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... proportion of its polar to its equatorial diameter. By a most refined process he gave this proportion upon the supposition of the mass being homogeneous. That the proportion is different in consequence of the mass being heterogeneous does not in the... 