RefNo | PT/50/3/3 |
Level | Item |
Title | Plate, table land on spheroidal surface of earth with lava underneath by George Biddell Airy |
Date | 19 January 1855 |
Description | Figure 2 showing a diagram of a table land on the spheroidal surface of the earth and the lava underneath the earth's crust.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys'.
Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 25 January 1855. Read 15 February 1855. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Diagram |
PhysicalDescription | Ink diagram on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0060 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1855.0003 |
RelatedRecord | RR/2/5 |
RR/2/6 |
PT/50/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |