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...

Munro. Schiehallion has a rich flora, interesting folklore and archaeology, and a unique place in scientific history for an 18th-century experiment in "weighing...

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...

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...

Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774. It was still occasionally defended through the mid-19th...

Condamine having attempted the same experiment in 1738 in the Andes. Maskelyne performed his experiment in 1774 on Schiehallion in Perthshire, Scotland, the...

of the Earth for the first time. Known as the Schiehallion experiment (1774) Inclined plane experiment (1602–07): Galileo Galilei uses rolling balls to...

time. Known as the Schiehallion experiment. 1796 – Edward Jenner: tests the first vaccine. 1798 – Henry Cavendish: Torsion bar experiment to measure Newton's...

56 g⋅cm−3. Cavendish's experiment proved to result in more reliable measurements than pendulum experiments of the "Schiehallion" (deflection) type or "Peruvian"...

earth from Nevil Maskelyne's measurements collected during the Schiehallion experiment. Hutton was born on Percy Street in Newcastle upon Tyne in the...