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[112] Ibid., p. 76.
[113] Ibid., p. 309.
[114] Ibid., p. 310.
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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, Pere 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
Cellerier, 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
De Freycinet, Louis Claude de Saulses, 317
De la Hire, Gabriel Philippe, 306
De Prony, M. G., 314
Dryden, Hugh L., 342
Du Buat, L. G., 314
Duperry, Capt. Louis Isidore, 317
Eratosthenes, 306, 308, 342
Eudoxus of Cnidus, 306
Faye, Herve, 325, 336, 346, 347
Fernel, Jean, 306
Furtwaengler, P., 337
Galilei, Galileo, 304, 305, 346
Gauss, C. F., 320
Gautier, P., 339
Godin, Louis, 307
Goldingham, John, 316, 345
Greely, A. W., 329
Gulf Oil and Development Company, 338
Haid, M., 335
Hall, Basil, 316
Heaviside, W. J., 321, 345
Heiskanen, W. A., 338, 345, 346
Helmert, F. R., 338, 339
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 326
Herschel, John, 319, 328, 345
Heyl, Paul R., 339, 342
Hirsch, Adolph, 322, 324
Huygens, Christiaan, 304, 305, 307, 314, 342, 346
Ibanez, Carlos, 325
Jeffreys, Sir Harold, 342
Jones, Thomas, 318
Kater, Henry, 304, 314, 325, 327, 329, 345, 346
Kuehnen, F., 338, 339
La Condamine, Charles Marie de, 307, 310, 311, 343
Laplace, Marquis Pierre Simon de, 309, 313, 320
Lorenzoni, Giuseppe, 336, 339
Luetke, Count Feodor Petrovich, 316, 345
Maupertius, P. L. Moreau de, 308, 343
Maxwell, James Clerk, 324
Medi, Enrico, 342
Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin, 319, 331, 332, 334, 347
Mersenne, P. Marin, 305
Newton, Sir Isaac, 303, 307, 308, 342, 343
Norwood, Richard, 306
Oppolzer, Theodor von, 322, 324
Patterson, Carlile Pollock, 325, 326
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 314, 322, 332, 336, 342, 345
Peters, C. A. F., 322, 324
Picard, Abbe Jean, 306, 308, 342
Plantamour, E., 319, 324
Posidonius, 306
Preston, E. D., 328, 329
Putnam, G. R., 339
Pythagoras, 306
Repsold, A., and Sons (Hamburg), 320, 322, 338, 339, 346
Richer, Jean, 307, 342
Sabine, Capt. Edward, 315, 325, 329, 345
Sawitsch, A., 321, 322
Schumacher, H. C., 320
Schumann, R., 335, 336
Snell, Willebrord, 306
Sterneck, Robert von, 331, 332, 335, 338, 346
Stokes, George Gabriel, 324, 328, 329, 345, 346
Ulloa, Antonio de, 308
Vening Meinesz, F. A., 337, 338, 345
Volet, Charles, 342
Wilkes, Charles, 317, 318
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Transcriber's note:
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the paper. Illustrations and the
GLOSSARY OF GRAVITY TERMINOLOGY section have been moved to avoid breaks
in paragraphs. Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without
note. Typographical errors and inconsistencies have been corrected as
follows:
P. 320 'difference T_{1} - T_{2} is sufficiently'--had 'sufficlently.'
P. 321 'faites a Geneve avec le pendule a reversion'--had 'reversion.'
P. 326 'Schwere mit Hilfe verschiedener Apparate'--had 'verschiedene.'
P. 328 'between the yard and the meter.'--closing quote mark deleted.
P. 334 'Mendenhall apparatus were part of'--'was' changed to 'were.'
P. 342 'of the Geodetic Institute at Potsdam'--had 'Postdam.'
P. 345 'The gravimetric methods of physical'--had 'mtehods.'
Footnote 1 'Societe francaise de Physique'--had 'Francaise.'
Footnote 3 'Cogitata physico-mathematica'--had 'physica.'
Footnote 10 'mathematiques et de physique par MM. de l'Academie
Royale'--had 'mathematiques,' 'Royal.'
Footnote 12 'par ordre du Roy au Perou, pour observer'--had 'Perou,
pour observir.'
Footnote 19 'Opticam et Astronomiam'--had 'Astronomian.'
Footnote 20 'connaitre la longueur du pendule qui'--had 'connaitre la
longuer.'
Footnote 21 'Abhandlungen der Koeniglichen Akademie'--had 'Koenigliche.'
Footnote 25 'pour determiner la longueur du pendule'--had 'longeur.'
Footnote 41 'Survey of India (Calcutta, 1879)'-- had 'Surey.'
Footnotes 45 and 47 'Societe de Physique et d'histoire'--had
'd'historire.'
Footnote 49 'Ueber die Groesse und Figur der Erde'--had 'Grosse.'
Footnote 53 'Bestimmung der Laenge'--had 'Lange';
'Astronomisch-Geodaetische Arbeiten'--had 'Astronomische';
'Veroeffentlichungen des Koeniglichen'--had 'Koenigliche.'
Footnote 55 '(1768), vol. 58, pp. 329-335.'--had '329-235.'
Footnote 66 'Comptes-rendus de l'Academie'--had 'L'Academie.'
Footnote 81 'Sur l'Intensite absolue'--had 'l'Intensite.'
Footnote 89 'Sitzungsberichte der Koeniglicher'--had 'Koenigliche.'
Footnote 100 'Veroeffentlichungen des Koeniglichen' had
'Veroeffentlichungen Koenigliche.'
Capitalisation of 'Von'/'von' has been regulaized to 'von' for all
personal names, except at the beginning of a sentence, and when
referring to the Von Sterneck pendulum.