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RefNoRR/2/62
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Baden Powell, on a paper 'Sur la théorie de I'orientation du plan oscillatoire du pendule simple, et son application à la recherche de I'aplatissement du sphéroide terrestre' by M Oliveira [Baptiste d'Oliveira on index card]
Date15 March 1854
DescriptionNot recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The deductions into Foucault's pendulum do not take the 'essential dynamical conditions' into account.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0142 Vol.6 1854
RelatedRecordAP.34.18
RR/2/61
AP/34/18
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5476Powell; Baden (1796 - 1860)1796 - 1860
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