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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

the summer of 1773. Mason selected Schiehallion at which to conduct what became known as the Schiehallion experiment, which was carried out primarily by...

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

Vertical deflections were used to measure Earth's density in the Schiehallion experiment. Vertical deflection is the reason why modern prime meridian passes...

theoretically by Ducarla in 1771, and Charles Hutton used them in the Schiehallion experiment. In 1791, a map of France by J. L. Dupain-Triel used contour lines...

Croisic; see Works by Jean Fréour. List of geophysicists Radiodrome Schiehallion experiment "August 15, 1758: Death of Pierre Bouguer". APS News. American...

Earth: Nevil Maskelyne conducted the Schiehallion experiment conducted at the Scottish mountain of Schiehallion, Perthshire 1774 The first isolation of...

acquaintance he had first made in the course of the celebrated Schiehallion experiments in 1774, he also gained access to the scientific circles of London...

Australis. 1775 – Charles Hutton, based on his analysis of the Schiehallion experiment, shows the Earth has a density of at least 4,500 kg·m−3 and suggests...

in Japan, the first modern anatomy textbook produced there. The Schiehallion experiment is carried out by Nevil Maskelyne to determine the mean density...

Royal, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and was involved in the Schiehallion experiment. He later conducted research in India, teaching himself Sanskrit...

1774, Maskelyne was confirming Newton's theory of gravitation at and on Schiehallion mountain in Scotland, and he needed to measure elevations on the mountain's...

separate condenser. 1774 - Schiehallion experiment experiment to weigh the planet 1774 - Joseph Priestley’s breakthrough experiments on gases. 1784 - The 18th...

Schaefer–Bergmann diffraction Scharnhorst effect Scherk–Schwarz mechanism Schiehallion experiment Schlieren Schlieren imaging Schlieren photography Schmidt corrector...

on the site that will become St Peter's Church, Aberdeen. The Schiehallion experiment is carried by Nevil Maskelyne out to determine the mean density...

mass of the Earth in a ground-breaking experiment carried out in 1774. Following Maskelyne's survey, Schiehallion became the first mountain to be mapped...

Maskelyne, N. (1775). "An Account of Observations Made on the Mountain Schiehallion for Finding Its Attraction". Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 65 (0): 500–542...

for a repetition of the pendulum experiments previously conducted by Nevil Maskelyne and John Playfair at Schiehallion, and on the deviations of the plumb-line...

the mass of the mountains (based on density estimated in 1772 at Mount Schiehallion in Scotland) but the observed deviations were much less. He propounded...

North Sea into four development projects including the Clair, Devenick, Schiehallion and Loyal, and Kinnoull oilfields. BP is the operator of the Clair oilfield...