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Suggest adding text on contributions to gravity

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Suggest adding text on Bouguer's contributions to understanding of gravity.

Also suggest adding links to these pages:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bouguer.html

"Bouguer was the first to attempt to measure the density of the Earth using the deflection of a plumb line due to the attraction of a mountain. Together with La Condamine, he made measurements in Peru in 1740 publishing his results in La Figure de la terre (1749). A more successful use of the same method was made by the astronomer Maskelyne in 1774, placing the density between 4.5 and 5."

http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=Bouguer%20anomaly

" . . . Pierre Bouguer, a French mathematician (1698 to 1758) who demonstrated that gravitational attraction decreases with altitude."

http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=Bouguer%20correction


Banchang (talk) 20:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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