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Schiehallion (/ʃiːˈhæli.ən/;
Scottish Gaelic: Sìth Chailleann, IPA: [ʃiˈxaʎən̪ˠ]) is a
prominent cone-shaped
mountain in the
Breadalbane region of the...
- 56°40′4″N 4°5′52″W / 56.66778°N 4.09778°W / 56.66778; -4.09778 The
Schiehallion experiment was an 18th-century
experiment to
determine the mean density...
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measured with any
accuracy (within
about 20% of the
correct value) in the
Schiehallion experiment in the 1770s, and
within 1% of the
modern value in the Cavendish...
- The
Schiehallion oilfield is a
deepwater offs****
oilfield approximately 175
kilometres (110 mi) west of the
Shetland Islands in the
North Atlantic Ocean...
- by
Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then
definitively by
Charles Hutton in his
Schiehallion experiment around 1774. It was
still occasionally defended through the...
- some
thinkers of the day,
including Edmond Halley, had suggested. The
Schiehallion experiment,
proposed in 1772 and
completed in 1776, was the
first successful...
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build the
current building. The
estate is
overlooked by the peak of
Schiehallion, a
conical mountain sometimes translated as "Fairy hill of the Caledonians"...
- 1774,
Maskelyne was
confirming Newton's
theory of
gravitation at and on
Schiehallion mountain in Scotland, and he
needed to
measure elevations on the mountain's...
- name
Caledonia is
echoed in the
place names of Dunkeld, Rohallion, and
Schiehallion. The
Great Conspiracy constituted a
seemingly coordinated invasion against...
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during the
summer of 1773.
Mason selected Schiehallion at
which to
conduct what
became known as the
Schiehallion experiment,
which was
carried out primarily...
