X. Abstract of the results of the comparisons of the standards of length of England, France, Belgium, Prussia, Russia, India, Australia, made at the ordnance Survey Office, Southampton
@article{ClarkeXAO, title={X. Abstract of the results of the comparisons of the standards of length of England, France, Belgium, Prussia, Russia, India, Australia, made at the ordnance Survey Office, Southampton}, author={A. Clarke}, journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London}, pages={161 - 180} }
The principal triangnlation of the United Kingdom was finished in 1851; and the triangulations of. France, Belgium, Prussia, and Russia were so far advanced in 1860 that, if connected, we should have a continuous triangulation from the Island of Valentia, on the south-west extremity of Ireland, in north latitude 51° 55' 20", and longitude 10° 20' 40", west of Greenwich, to Orsk, on the River Ural in Russia. It was therefore possible to measure the length of an arc of parallel in latitude 52° of… CONTINUE READING
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