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Excerpt from A History of the Determination of the Figure of the Earth From Arc Measurements
In observing the angles, of the triangles, a quadrant of a circle, made of copper and about two feet in radius, was used; this was graduated to two minutes, and in reading, estimated to single minutes. The astronomical observations were made with a like quadrant, but of 5 foot radius.
Cassini, in 1607, (24, 1718, p. Observed the latitude at several of Snell's stations and was led to believe that the results given were small, and that there were small errors in both the triangulation and latitude observations. Re-observations of latitude and recalculations, by Muschen broek, in 1729, gave as the value of 1 degree, toises.
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