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Excerpt from An Account of Experiments to Determine the Figure of the Earth: By Means of the Pendulum Vibrating Seconds in Different Latitudes; As Well as on Various Other Subjects of Philosophical Inquiry
Thus, a century and a half has elapsed since the earth has been known to be compressed at the Poles; during eighty years of which period, we have recognised and possessed in the pen dulum a means of determining the exact measure of the com pression.
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