Paper, 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Reference number: PT/50/3
Date: 19 January 1855
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13 manuscript pages and two plates showing table lands on the surface of the earth.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys'.
Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 25 January 1855. Read 15 February 1855.
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/50/3
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- 19 January 1855
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- Ink on paper
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- 15 pages
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- Manuscript
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George Biddell Airy, Paper, 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys' by G B [George Biddell] Airy, 19 January 1855, PT/50/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_50_3/paper-on-the-computation-of-the-effect-of-the-attraction-of-mountain-masses-as-disturbing-the-apparent-astronomical-latitude-of-stations-in-geodetic-surveys-by-g-b-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 23 January 2025
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II. On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1856
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