File:Room in Which Mr. Baily Weighed the Earth.jpg
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English: This engraving is of the room where in 1838 Francis Baily measured the density and weight of the Earth. The mean density of Earth was found to be 5.67 times the density of water, and the weight of the Earth was calculated to be 6,049,836 billion tons (give or take). |
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| Source | Things Not Generally Known (11th Edition, Lockwood & Co., 1847) |
| Author | John Timbs |
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930. |
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| current | 18:31, 9 October 2014 | 766 × 557 (279 KB) | HenricusHirschdörfer | User created page with UploadWizard |
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