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RGO Archives/RGO 4 contains:
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109 Positions of places in the East Indies
110 Longitude of Stroud
111 Treatises by Captain Muller
112 Measurement of a meridional arc
113 Measurement of a meridional arc
114 Measurement of the Bangalore baseline
115 Rules for the attraction of hills
116 Rules for the attraction of hills on plumb-lines
117 Number unassigned
118 Meridian transits
119 Correspondence on Vesta and Ceres
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Papers of Nevil Maskelyne

Title Measurement of the Bangalore baseline
Reference RGO 4/114
(former reference: A2/412)
Covering Dates 1800–1801
Extent and Medium 1 volume
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An account by Brigade Major William Lambton of the measurement of a base line near Bangalore, together with the particulars of a geographical survey around Mysore. The book is divided into two parts. The first section is comprised of an account of the measurement of the base line near Bangalore and descriptions of the instruments used to determine the latitude and meridian lines for taking the horizontal angles. The second part is an account of the principal operation of the survey, with an explanation of the procedure involved. There are tables for the observations at the latitudes of Seringapatum, Shettagay and Serah, and distances from the meridians of various places, with their deduced latitudes and longitudes.

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Bangalore
India
Mysore
Lambton, William (1756-1823) author
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