Communication from Col. Mudge (Addressed to the Publisher)
W Mudge
Genre: | Letter |
Subjects: | Gravity |
People mentioned: | William Mudge, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Howard Elphinstone, Jesse Ramsden, Thomas F Colby, Dominique F J Arago, William Bain |
Institutions mentioned: | Bureau des Longitude, Paris, Royal Observatory, Greenwich |
Publications cited: | Bain 1817 |
Describes the method and location of experiments to 'ascertain the force of gravity at certain parts of our meridian, as connected with that of France and Spain' (234). |
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