Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966Multhauf, Robert P.
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Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966
Multhauf, Robert P.
Pendulum
[101] J. A. DUERKSEN, _Pendulum Gravity Data in the United States_
(Special Publication No. 244, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey;
Washington, 1949).
[102] Ibid., p. 2. See also, E. J. BROWN, loc. cit. (footnote 85).
[103] PAUL R. HEYL and GUY S. COOK, "The Value of Gravity at
Washington," _Journal of Research, National Bureau of Standards_ (1936),
vol. 17, p. 805.
[104] SIR HAROLD JEFFREYS, "The Absolute Value of Gravity," _Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Geophysical Supplement_
(London, 1949), vol. 5, p. 398.
[105] J. S. CLARK, "The Acceleration Due to Gravity," _Phil. Trans._
(1939), vol. 238, p. 65.
[106] HUGH L. DRYDEN, "A Reexamination of the Potsdam
Absolute Determination of Gravity," _Journal of Research,
National Bureau of Standards_ (1942), vol. 29, p. 303; and A.
BERROTH, "Das Fundamentalsystem der Schwere im Lichte neuer
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183-204.
[107] T. C. MENDENHALL, op. cit. (footnote 83), p. 522.
[108] A. H. COOK, "Recent Developments in the Absolute Measurement of
Gravity," _Bulletin Géodésique_ (June 1, 1957), no. 44, pp. 34-59.
[109] See footnote 89.
[110] C. S. PEIRCE, "On the Deduction of the Ellipticity of the Earth,
from Pendulum Experiments," _Report of the Superintendent of the U.S.
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pp. 442-456.
[111] HEISKANEN and VENING MEINESZ, op. cit. (footnote 95), p. 74.
[112] Ibid., p. 76.
[113] Ibid., p. 309.
[114] Ibid., p. 310.
[115] K. REICHENEDER, "Method of the New Measurements at Potsdam by
Means of the Reversible Pendulum," _Bulletin Géodésique_ (March 1, 1959),
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INDEX
Airy, G. B., 319, 324, 332
Albrecht, Karl Theodore, 322, 338
Al-Mamun, seventh calif of Bagdad, 306
Almansi, Emilio, 339
Aristotle, 306
Baeyer, J. J., 321, 322, 324, 338, 346
Baily, Francis, 317
Basevi, James Palladio, 345
Berroth, A., 342
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, 313, 314, 319, 320, 324, 325, 338, 346
Biot, Jean Baptiste, 325, 329
Bohnenberger, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich, 315
Borda, J. C., 311, 312, 315, 325, 329, 346
Boscovitch, Père R. J., 310, 311
Bouguer, Pierre, 307, 309, 327, 343, 345
Brahe, Tycho, 306
Brown, E. J., 334, 339
Browne, Henry, 304, 314
Bruhns, C., 322, 324, 338
Brunner Brothers (Paris), 329
Cassini, Giovanni-Domenico, 306, 307
Cassini, Jacques, 306
Cassini de Thury, J. D., 311, 312, 315, 325, 329, 346
Cellérier, Charles, 320, 321, 325, 326, 329, 336
Clairaut, Alexis Claude, 308, 309, 343, 345
Clark, J. S., 342
Clarke, A. R., 345
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 306
Cook, A. H., 342
Cook, Guy S., 339, 342
Defforges, C., 314, 329, 346
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