Paper, 'On the deflection of the plumb line at Arthur's Seat and the mean specific gravity of the earth' by Lieutenant Colonel [Henry] James
Reference number: PT/53/10
Date: 07 February 1856
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33 manuscript pages and two plates showing a map of Edinburgh and sections through Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's Seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth'.
Received by the Royal Society on 11 February 1856. Read 21 February 1856.
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 8, 1857.
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- PT/53/10
- Earliest possible date
- 07 February 1856
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- Ink on paper
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- 35 pages
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- Manuscript
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Henry James, Paper, 'On the deflection of the plumb line at Arthur's Seat and the mean specific gravity of the earth' by Lieutenant Colonel [Henry] James, 07 February 1856, PT/53/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_53_10/paper-on-the-deflection-of-the-plumb-line-at-arthurs-seat-and-the-mean-specific-gravity-of-the-earth-by-lieutenant-colonel-henry-james, accessed on 24 May 2025
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November 1850 - June 1856 Reference number: PT/53
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