Bouguer, Pierre (1698-1758)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3484. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Mathematician and physicist, born in Le Croisic, France, he was the
first to measure the density of the Earth using the deflection of a
plumb line due to the attraction of a mountain in Peru, as more
successfully done by the Astronomer Royal, NEVIL MASKELYNE....

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