Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts . F, inruir ini7kjHhurnum NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, AND THE ARTS. SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. XXXIIL ARTICLE I. Observations on the Measurement of three Degrees of the Me-ridian, conducted in England, ly Lieut. Col. lyilliam Don Joseph Rodriguez. From the PhilosophicalTransactions for 1812, p. 321. THE determination of the figure and magnitude of the earth Problem. Tohas at all times excited the curiosity of mankind, and the a-certain the1 • <- I 1 1 , 1 figue and history ot the several attempts made by astronomers to solve magn
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts . F, inruir ini7kjHhurnum NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, AND THE ARTS. SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. XXXIIL ARTICLE I. Observations on the Measurement of three Degrees of the Me-ridian, conducted in England, ly Lieut. Col. lyilliam Don Joseph Rodriguez. From the PhilosophicalTransactions for 1812, p. 321. THE determination of the figure and magnitude of the earth Problem. Tohas at all times excited the curiosity of mankind, and the a-certain the1 • <- I 1 1 , 1 figue and history ot the several attempts made by astronomers to solve magnitude of this problem might be traced to the most remote antiquity, ttieeitrthBut the details of the methods pursued by the ancients on thissubject being extremely vague, and their results expressed inmeasures of which we do not know the relation to our own,in fact give us very little assistance in learning either the figureor dimensions of our globe. It was not till the revival of science in Europe, that the was consi<?eredtwo great philosophers, Huygh
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