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: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-7-79-2016 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00011300 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00011257/hgss-7-79-2016.pdf https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/7/79/2016/hgss-7-79-2016.pdf |