56.66778°N 4.09778°W / 56.66778; -4.09778 The Schiehallion experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth. Funded...
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Munro. Schiehallion has a rich flora, interesting folklore and archaeology, and a unique place in scientific history for an 18th-century experiment in "weighing...
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Earth mass (section Schiehallion experiment)
the correct value) in the Schiehallion experiment in the 1770s, and within 1% of the modern value in the Cavendish experiment of 1798. The mass of Earth...
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first proposed by Charles Hutton based on his analysis of the 1774 Schiehallion experiment. Cavendish's result of 5.4 g·cm−3, 23% bigger than Hutton's, is...
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Hollow Earth (category Thought experiments)
Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774. It was still occasionally defended through the mid-19th...
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Nevil Maskelyne (section Schiehallion experiment)
Condamine having attempted the same experiment in 1738 in the Andes. Maskelyne performed his experiment in 1774 on Schiehallion in Perthshire, Scotland, the...
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of the Earth for the first time. Known as the Schiehallion experiment (1774) Inclined plane experiment (1602–07): Galileo Galilei uses rolling balls to...
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time. Known as the Schiehallion experiment. 1796 – Edward Jenner: tests the first vaccine. 1798 – Henry Cavendish: Torsion bar experiment to measure Newton's...
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56 g⋅cm−3. Cavendish's experiment proved to result in more reliable measurements than pendulum experiments of the "Schiehallion" (deflection) type or "Peruvian"...
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earth from Nevil Maskelyne's measurements collected during the Schiehallion experiment. Hutton was born on Percy Street in Newcastle upon Tyne in the...
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