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Schiehallion Experiment

Jesse Russell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schiehallion experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth. Funded by a grant from the Royal Society, it was conducted in the summer of 1774 around the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion, Perthshire. The experiment involved measuring the tiny deflection of a pendulum due to the gravitational attraction of a nearby mountain. Schiehallion was considered the ideal location after a search for candidate mountains, thanks to its isolation and almost symmetrical shape. One of the triggers for the experiment were anomalies noted during the survey of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
  • Publish Date: Jan 11st, 2013
  • Pages: 74
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 11.00in - 8.25in - 0.15in - 0.41lb
  • EAN: 9785510664010