 | 1839 - 330 pages
...high and steep. In fact, as we have already seen, there appears to be a general correspondence between the height of the land and the depth of the sea ; and by the calculations of the celebrated Laplace, it would seem that the average depth 286 THE SEA of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...high and steep. In fact, as we have already seen, there appears to be a general correspondence between the height of the land and the depth of the sea ; and, by the calculations of the celebrated La Place, it would seem that the average depth of the ocean is... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - Hydrodynamics - 1883 - 377 pages
...separate the whole integral into two parts, involving g and A'$r respectively, so as to get the part of Aw which is due to g by our knowledge of the height of...because it would enter with opposite signs into g' and A'#. the radius vector of the earth's surface, and consequently for the determination of the particular... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - Hydrodynamics - 1883 - 426 pages
...parts, or, which comes to the same, to separate the whole integral into two parts, involving g' and A'^r respectively, so as to get the part of AM which is...the depth of the sea, and the part which depends on A'<7 by the result of pendulum-experiments. It may be observed that a constant error, or a slowly varying... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - Geodesy - 1892 - 212 pages
...not very distant day the ; metre will not only be used for horizontal measurement, but also for that of the height of the land and the depth of the sea. Such is now generally the practice in Europe; in the flat countries contour lines are given at intervals... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1892 - 846 pages
...not very distant day the metre will not only be used for horizontal measurement, but also for that of the height of the land and the depth of the sea. Such is now generally the practice in Europe; in the flat countries contour lines are given at intervals... | |
 | English periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...irregularities of the earth-s surface. These formulae require a knowledge, or at least an approximate knowledge, of the height of the land and the depth of the sea throughout the earth-s surface. The sign and magnitude of the difference between observed gravity,... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - Mathematics - 1863 - 862 pages
...irregularities of the earth's surface. These formulae require a knowledge, or at least an approximate knowledge, of the height of the land and the depth of the sea throughout the earth's surface. The sign and magnitude of the difference between observed gravity,... | |
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A'$r respectively, so as to get the part of Aw which is due to g by our knowledge of the height of the land and the depth of the sea, and the part which depends on A' 