| 1830 - 852 Seiten
...Ships;1' in 1818, " An Appendix to Capt. Hater's Paper, entitled An Account of Experiments for determining the length of the Pendulum vibrating Seconds in the latitude of London;" in 181Й, two otlier papers on the same subject ; in 1Й2С, " On a finite Expression for Refraction... | |
| 1830 - 928 Seiten
...in 1818, '• An Appendix to Capt. Hater's Paper, entitled An Account of Experiments for determining the length of the Pendulum vibrating Seconds in the latitude of London;" in 1819, two other papers on the same subject ; in 182fi, " On a finite Expression for Refraction in... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1831 - 720 Seiten
...purposes of life, as well as for the determination of the masses and distances of the heavenly bodies. The length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London forms the standard of the British measure of extension. Its length oscillating in vacuo at the temperature... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 Seiten
...APPENDIX, Talile ix. Captain Kater has lately made a small correction on his first determination of the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. Insteadof39.13860inches, es given in the Phil. Trans, for 1818, he has made it 39.13929 inches of Sir... | |
| 1832 - 650 Seiten
...purposes of life, as well as for the determination of the masses and distances of the heavenly bodies. The length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London forms the standard of the British measure of extension. Its length oscillating in vacuo at the temperature... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1833 - 502 Seiten
...interesting to the comparative anatomist and to the geologist. An Account of Experiments for determining the Length of the Pendulum vibrating Seconds in the Latitude of London. By ('apt. Henry Kater, f'.RS Head January '29. ISIS. [Phil. Trims. 1818. p. 33.] It has long been a... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1833 - 486 Seiten
...method of dividing astronomical circles and other instruments, i. 504 ; experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, ii. 83; on the length of the French metre estimated in parts of the English standard, ii. 85 ; experiments... | |
| 1838 - 1014 Seiten
...These corrections being applied, we have 39.13929 inches of Sir G. Shuckbargh's standard scale, for the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. " Wishing to compare with this the result which would have been obtained by means of the weights and... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1838 - 396 Seiten
...establishing mutual relations between the three, thus : — The contents of the cube of the sixth part of the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, at the level of the sea, and in a vacuum (which has been made the element for establishing linear measure)... | |
| John Hymers - 1840 - 386 Seiten
...purposes of life, as well as for the estimation of the distances and volumes of the heavenly bodies. The length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London in vacuo is 39,13734 inches; this is the standard of the British measure of extension. The French unit... | |
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