Letter, 'Communicating the details of experiments made with an invariable pendulum, at various places on the South American station' by Captain Basil Hall to Captain [Henry] Kater
Reference number: PT/16/22
Date: 23 February 1823
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Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R. N. to Captain Kater, communicating the details of experiments made by him and Mr. Henry Foster, with an invariable pendulum; in London; at the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, near the Equator; at San Blas de California on the N. W. Coast of Mexico; and at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. With an appendix, containing the second series of experiments in London, on the return'.
Written by Hall on His Majesty's Ship Conway in Spithead [Hampshire]. Read 24 April 1823.
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/16/22
- Earliest possible date
- 23 February 1823
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 94 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Basil Hall, Letter, 'Communicating the details of experiments made with an invariable pendulum, at various places on the South American station' by Captain Basil Hall to Captain [Henry] Kater, 23 February 1823, PT/16/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_16_22/letter-communicating-the-details-of-experiments-made-with-an-invariable-pendulum-at-various-places-on-the-south-american-station-by-captain-basil-hall-to-captain-henry-kater, accessed on 16 February 2026
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Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R. N. to captain Kater, communicating the detail of experiments made by him and Mr. Henry Foster, with an invariable pendulum, in London; at the galapagos islands in the pacific oceans, near the equator; at san blas de California on the N. W. Coast of Mexico; and at Rio de janerio in Brazil. With an appendix, containing the second series of experiments in London, on the return External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
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XX. Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R. N. to Captain Kater, communicating the details of experiments made by him and Mr. Henry Foster, with an invariable pendulum; in London; at the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, near the Equator; at San Blas de California on the N. W. Coast of Mexico; and at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. With an appendix, containing the second series of experiments in London, on the return External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1823
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0022
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1823
February 1822 - June 1823 Reference number: PT/16
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