The Mean Density of the Earth: An Essay to Which the Adams Prize Was Adjudged in in the University of Cambridge (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Mean Density of the Earth: An Essay to Which the Adams Prize Was Adjudged in in the University of CambridgeThe subject for the Adams Prize for 1893 was The Methods of determining the absolute and relative value of gravitation and the mean density of the earth.This Essay, to which the Prize was adjudged, gives an account of the various experiments, including one by the author, which have been made to determine the mean density of the earth.The First Part consists of an introductory discussion of the problem and an account of the experiments hitherto made on the subject. Since the Essay was first written I have had access to some of the original papers, of which I had before only seen abstracts or brief notices, and I have therefore been able to make the history of the subject more complete.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.