On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys, by G.D. Airy

Airy, G. B. (1855). On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys, by G.D. Airy. Mathematics General Collection.

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1855

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10.1163/9789004460409_mor2-b29392718

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De Gruyter

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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004460409_mor2-b29392718

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  • First the models: in 1855 John Henry Pratt computed that the Himalaya deflect the plumb-line in India by far less than their visible mass should, and George Biddell Airy — writing in the same volume of the Philosophical Transactions, and opening his paper by naming Pratt's — answered with a compensation model of his own, in which a crust of near-uniform density floats in equilibrium on a denser substratum, thickened into deep roots beneath mountains

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