Account of the observations and calculations of the Principal Triangulation; and of the figure, dimensions and mean specific gravity of the Earth as derived therefrom
Print Book, English, 1858
Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, London, 1858
Surveys
[4], xvii, 782, [2] pages frontispiece, tables, atlas of 29 plates 32 cm
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v. 1. Description of stations.-Description of instruments.-Reduction of observations.-Observations, terrestrial and astronomical.-Measurement of base lines.-Principles of calculation.-Reduction of the triangulation.-Triangles and distances.-Terrestrial zenith distances altitudes.-Connection of geodetical and astronomical observations.-Determination of the amount of local attraction at various astronomical stations in the triangulation.-Determination of the spheroid most nearly representing the surface of Great Britain and Ireland.-Of the length of the degree, etc., latitudes and longitudes and directions of the meridian at the different stations.-Figure of the Earth
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