Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,  1 (1817), 234–35.

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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