Paper 44 - Transcriber’s Note
Formatting of equations has been altered from the original to display them ‘in line,’ and brackets have been added to clarify expressions where necessary.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the paper. Illustrations and the Glossary of Gravity Terminology section have been moved to avoid breaks in paragraphs. Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Typographical errors and inconsistencies have been corrected as follows:
P. 320 ‘difference T1 - T2 is sufficiently’—had ‘sufficlently.’
P. 321 ‘faites à Genève avec le pendule à réversion’—had ‘reversion.’
P. 326 ‘Schwere mit Hilfe verschiedener Apparate’—had ‘verschiedene.’
P. 328 ‘between the yard and the meter.’—closing quote mark deleted.
P. 334 ‘Mendenhall apparatus were part of’—‘was’ changed to ‘were.’
P. 342 ‘of the Geodetic Institute at Potsdam’—had ‘Postdam.’
P. 345 ‘The gravimetric methods of physical’—had ‘mtehods.’
Footnote 1 ‘Société française de Physique’—had ‘Française.’
Footnote 3 ‘Cogitata physico-mathematica’—had ‘physica.’
Footnote 10 ‘mathématiques et de physique par MM. de l’Académie Royale’—had ‘mathematiques,’ ‘Royal.’
Footnote 12 ‘par ordre du Roy au Pérou, pour observer’—had ‘Perou, pour observir.’
Footnote 19 ‘Opticam et Astronomiam’—had ‘Astronomian.’
Footnote 20 ‘connaître la longueur du pendule qui’—had ‘connaitre la longuer.’
Footnote 21 ‘Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie’—had ‘Königliche.’
Footnote 25 ‘pour déterminer la longueur du pendule’—had ‘longeur.’
Footnote 41 ‘Survey of India (Calcutta, 1879)’— had ‘Surey.’
Footnotes 45 and 47 ‘Société de Physique et d’histoire’—had ‘d’historire.’
Footnote 49 ‘Über die Grösse und Figur der Erde’—had ‘Grosse.’
Footnote 53 ‘Bestimmung der Länge’—had ‘Lange’; ‘Astronomisch-Geodätische Arbeiten’—had ‘Astronomische’; ‘Veröffentlichungen des Königlichen’—had ‘Königliche.’
Footnote 55 ‘(1768), vol. 58, pp. 329-335.’—had ‘329-235.’
Footnote 66 ‘Comptes-rendus de l’Académie’—had ‘L’Académie.’
Footnote 81 ‘Sur l’Intensité absolue’—had ‘l’Intensite.’
Footnote 89 ‘Sitzungsberichte der Königlicher’—had ‘Königliche.’
Footnote 100 ‘Veröffentlichungen des Königlichen’ had ‘Veröffentlichungen Königliche.’
Capitalisation of ‘Von’/‘von’ has been regulaized to ‘von’ for all personal names, except at the beginning of a sentence, and when referring to the Von Sterneck pendulum.
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