Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1911
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1911natur..88....6s&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 88, Issue 2192, pp. 6 (1911).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
A FEW years ago I read a short paper before the British Astronomical Association, in which I suggested that certain eclipse observations should be made, not at the centre line the path of the shadow, but as near as possible to its two edges; and seeing that the forthcoming eclipse is unsuitable, on account of its short duration, for the usual observations, I hope that the astronomers of Europe will devote their attention to determining the position and width of the shadow. If they can do this with the exactitude which I anticipate, then, in a single day, full information will have been collected with which a profile of the earth's surface can be drawn along a line extending from Portugal through Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Russia to Siberia, which profile would have the advantage that it would be unaffected by local variations of gravity.
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