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SABINE, EDWARD.
An account of Experiments to determine the Figure of the Earth, by Means of the Pendulum vibrating Seconds in different Latitudes; as well as on various other Subjects of philosophical Inquiry. Printed at the Expense of the Board of Longitude.

London, John Murray, 1825. 4to. Recent solid full cloth. XV,509,(2) pp. and 3 engraved maps (one showing the partly discovered east cost of Greenland). Light discoloration to the title page, otherwise fine, motly unopend.
¶ First edition. Between 1821 and 1823 Sabine carried out pendulum measurements on the intertropical coasts of Africa and Americas, and also up the eastern coast of Greenland with Captain Clavering on Parry's ship the Griper. His results were first published here and represented the most accurate assessment of the Earth that had ever been made.

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