Paper, 'Observations made with the invariable pendulum No 4 (Jones), at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope for the purpose of determining the compression of the earth' by Fearon Fallows
Reference number: PT/19/1
Date: 1830
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Note by Edward Sabine and observations published with this paper found at PT/19/2.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in volume 120 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations made with the invariable pendulum (No. 4. Jones), at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, for the purpose of determining the compression of the earth'.
Addressed to Sir [John] Barrow at the Admiralty, London. Read 18 February 1830.
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/19/1
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- 1830
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- Ink on paper
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- 8 pages
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- Manuscript
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Fearon Fallows, Paper, 'Observations made with the invariable pendulum No 4 (Jones), at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope for the purpose of determining the compression of the earth' by Fearon Fallows, 1830, PT/19/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_19_1/paper-observations-made-with-the-invariable-pendulum-no-4-jones-at-the-royal-observatory-cape-of-good-hope-for-the-purpose-of-determining-the-compression-of-the-earth-by-fearon-fallows, accessed on 05 December 2024
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Creator: Edward Sabine, Fearon Fallows Reference number: PT/19/2
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1830-1831
February 1830 - July 1831 Reference number: PT/19
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