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RefNoPT/53/10/3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'Sections through Arthur's Seat' by unknown artist
Date[1856]
DescriptionDrawings of three sections through Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland demonstrating specific gravity. Different colours indicate the locations of sandstone and trap rock in the formation.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the deflection of the plumb-line at Arthur's Seat, and the mean specific gravity of the earth'.

Received by the Royal Society on 11 February 1856. Read 21 February 1856.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk and watercolour on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0014
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1856.0029
RelatedRecordRR/3/151
RR/3/152
PT/53/10
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2879James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); surveyor1803 - 1877
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