Paper, 'On the attraction of the Himmalaya [Himalaya] Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line of India' by John Henry Pratt
Reference number: PT/50/2
Date: 12 July 1854
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113 manuscript pages including five figures.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line in India'.
Written by Pratt at Deep River, Cape of Good Hope [Diep River, Western Cape, South Africa]. Communicated by J [James] Challis. Received by the Royal Society on 23 October 1854. Read 7 December 1854.
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 7, 1856.
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- PT/50/2
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- 12 July 1854
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- 113 pages
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John Henry Pratt, Paper, 'On the attraction of the Himmalaya [Himalaya] Mountains, and of the elevated regions beyond them, upon the plumb-line of India' by John Henry Pratt, 12 July 1854, PT/50/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_50_2/paper-on-the-attraction-of-the-himmalaya-himalaya-mountains-and-of-the-elevated-regions-beyond-them-upon-the-plumb-line-of-india-by-john-henry-pratt, accessed on 17 January 2025
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I. On the attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the elevated region beyond them, upon the plumb-line in India External link, opens in new tab.
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1855
July 1854 - March 1855 Reference number: PT/50
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