...and therefore we thought it best to avoid this arch in the fundamental determination. * The anomalies which have occurred in the measures of degrees, and...part of them is to be ascribed to error, and what to irregularities in the structure of the globe, has come, of course, to be considered. That a small part...

...increase each above the preceding by the quantity n sin.(2L -f 2°.) The length of the arch The anomalies which have occurred in the measures of degrees, and...part of them is to be ascribed to error, and what to irregularities in the structure of the globe, has come, of course, to be considered. That a small part...

...increase each above the preceding by the quantity n sin.(2L + 2°.) The length of the arch The anomalies which have occurred in the measures of degrees, and...part of them is to be ascribed to error, and what to irregularities in the structure of the globe, has come, of course, to be considered. That a small part...

...apposite to the present question: * See above, p. 27. t Playfair, in Ed. Rev. IX. p. 390. " The anomalies which have occurred in the measures of degrees, and...part of them is to be ascribed to error, and what to irregularities in the structure of the globe, has come, of course, to be considered. That a small part...

...been arrived at. Professor Play fair remarks, that " the anomalies which have occurred in the measure of degrees, and of which the appearances seem to increase...the globe, has come, of course, to be considered." Let us, however, examine the records of former measurements, and note to what direction these anomalies...