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Paper, 'An account of experiments to determine the acceleration of the pendulum in different latitudes' by Captain Edward Sabine

Reference number: PT/15/14

Date: 1821

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of experiments to determine the acceleration of the pendulum in different latitudes'.

Read 8 March 1821.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/15/14
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1821
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31 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Paper, 'An account of experiments to determine the acceleration of the pendulum in different latitudes' by Captain Edward Sabine, 1821, PT/15/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_14/paper-an-account-of-experiments-to-determine-the-acceleration-of-the-pendulum-in-different-latitudes-by-captain-edward-sabine, accessed on 14 March 2026

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