An account of experiments to determine the acceleration of the Pendulum in different Latitudes. Read March 8, 1821.
by SABINE, EDWARD. - THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS
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1821. (London, W.Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 164-190 a. 5 folded tables. First appearance of the paper in which Sabine relates his discoveries with the pendulum on his 2 voyages, the first on John Ross' expedition in 1818 - relating observations from Island of Brassa, Shetland, Hare Island, London - and from the second voyage with William Parry on the arctic expedition - relating observations from Melville Island. From these observations he estimated the figure of the earth."An artillery officer, Sabine was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. While retaining his commission - Sabine eventually reached the rank of general - the started scientific work at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. On the recommendation of the Royal Society, he accompanied John Ross on an expedition to seek the Northwest Passage in 1818 and was with William Edward Parry on his 1819-1820 Arctic expedition. From the latter voyage. he said, came the idea of a great ship-borne expedition of “physical discovery” to the southern hemisphere."(DSB).
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- An account of experiments to determine the acceleration of the Pendulum in different Latitudes. Read March 8, 1821.
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- SABINE, EDWARD. - THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS
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- 1821
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