| 1818 - 638 pages
...cannot conscientiously gay that they have hitherto been entitled. ART. VI. An Account of Expmmcnts for Determining the Length of the Pendulum Vibrating Seconds in the Latitude of London. By Captain HENRY KATER, FRS From the Philosophical Transactions. London, 1818. ''HE end of the last... | |
| 1823 - 946 pages
...the Royal Society London, an experimentalist singularly exact, and author of an excellent memoir on the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, was deputed for this purpose. With much precaution, he conveyed to Edinburgh and the Shetland Islands,... | |
| John Bonnycastle - 1813 - 444 pages
...and the length of the pendulum be required, we shall have f = -4= "8 .' =39.126 inches TT" «* for the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. appears, that the times of vibrations of pendulums, in cycloidal arcs, are as the square roots of their... | |
| 1818 - 484 pages
...animal lived in water by the form of its vertebra: ; while from the shape of its chest it was shewn to have breathed air. In concluding his observations...to Captain Kater for this important inquiry; after shewing the objections to all methods hitherto practised for accurately ascertaining the length of... | |
| 1818 - 514 pages
...of Philosophical Societies. ROYAL SOCIETY. Eeb. 5.— An abstract was read of Capt. Kater's paper on the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. Those who have attempted the solution of this problem, with the exception of Whitehurst, hav« proceeded... | |
| 1821 - 502 pages
...which had alternately served as the centres of suspension and oscillation, and from thence to deduce the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, which, at the spot (Mr. Browne's house in Portland Place) where the observations were made, is 51°... | |
| United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - 1821 - 276 pages
...warranted in taking 39.38 English as the length of the French platina standard metre, and 39.14 as the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London. And if the attempt at a minuter decimal fraction than that of the 100th part of an inch in the making... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...great convenience." 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. Instead of 39.13860 inches, as given in the Ph. Trans, for 1818, he has made it 39.13929 inches of... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 772 pages
...those of an animal in New Holland of so peculiar a character as the ornithorynchus. January 29th — An extremely curious and important paper was read...Captain Kater for this important inquiry. — After shewing the objections to all methods hitherto practised for accurately ascertaining the length of... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 554 pages
...which had alternately served as the centres of suspension and oscillation, and from thence to deduce the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, which, at the spot (Mr Browne's house in Portland Place) where the observations were made, is 51°... | |
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