 In his voyage out he had observed the fact that the oscillations of a pendulum increase in duration as the instrument approaches the equator. At his return from St. Helena the king granted him a mandamus to the university of Oxford for the degree of Master...  The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - 123. oldalszerző: National cyclopaedia - 1879Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Thomas Bradbury Chandler - 1805 - 222 oldal
...SHERIOCK and SECKER, and all the Doctor's friends, with the greatest affection. They recommended him to the university of Oxford for the degree of Master of Arts; which was readily conferred upon him, in the month of May; and soon after, to the university of Cambridge,... | |
 | 1838 - 524 oldal
...that the oscillations of a pendulum increase in duration as the instrument approaches the equator. At his return from St. Helena the king granted him a...Master of Arts, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This body sent him to Danzig in 1679 to judge of the observations of Hevelius, who maintained... | |
 | 1838 - 524 oldal
...that the oscillations of a pendulum increase in duration as the instrument approaches the equator. At his return from St. Helena the king granted him a...mandamus to the university of Oxford for the degree of Muster of Arts, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This body sent him to Danzig in 1679... | |
 | 1839 - 524 oldal
...that the oscillations of a pendulum increase in duration as the instrument approaches the equator. At his return from St. Helena the king granted him a...Master of Arts, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This body sent him to Danzig in 1679 to judge of the observations of Hevelius, who maintained... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 514 oldal
...that the oscillations of a pendulum increase hi duration as the instrument approaches the equator. At his return from St. Helena the king granted him a...mandamus to the University of Oxford for the degree of ALaster of Arts, and hu WAS elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This body sent him to Danzig in... | |
 | Edward John Chalmers Morton - 1882 - 370 oldal
...and among the new southern constellations he placed the " Royal Oak," in return for which Charles II. granted him a mandamus to the University of Oxford for the degree of Master of Arts, which he immediately obtained. The increase in duration of the oscillations of the pendulum was to... | |
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