A historical review of gravimetric observations in Norway
The first gravity determinations in Norway were made by Edward Sabine in 1823 with a pendulum instrument by Henry Kater. Seventy years later a Sterneck pendulum was acquired by the Norwegian Commission for the International Arc Measurements. It improved the precision and eventually reduced the bias...
| Published in: | History of Geo- and Space Sciences |
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| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-7-79-2016 https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/7/79/2016/ |