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The Mass of the Earth

Nature volumeΒ 49,Β pages 575–576 (1894)Cite this article

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THIS month's Philosophical Magazine contains an interesting, instructive, and suggestive, criticism of Prof. Poynting's Adams prize essay on β€œThe Mean Density of the Earth,” in which I have to-day read the following paragraph:β€”

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K. The Mass of the Earth. Nature 49, 575–576 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049575c0

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