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27 manuscript pages including three figures.

Subject: Geodesy / Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the cause of the discrepancies observed by Mr. Baily with the Cavendish apparatus for determining the mean density of the earth'.

Communicated by Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel. Received by the Royal Society on 11 February 1847. Read 11 March 1847.

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 5, 1851.

Reference number
PT/32/10
Earliest possible date
1847
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
27 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Whitehead Hearn

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George Whitehead Hearn, Paper, 'On discrepancies observed with the Cavendish apparatus' by [George Whitehead] Hearn, 1847, PT/32/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_10/paper-on-discrepancies-observed-with-the-cavendish-apparatus-by-george-whitehead-hearn, accessed on 07 November 2025

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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