tain tral Scottis above Locay, and . urned to tkno eriously, urned up in P cly on titution. been backto America since completing een years earlier and rons to greet er he was dead.
ito survey tain, to Maskelyne. So for four montent in a remote Scottis ing a team of surveyors, ion. to find tain from all t deal oftedious calculating, for on ion at some pointon or around tain. It ially just a confusing mass of numbers, but tonnoticed t if o connect points of equal , it all became mucantly get a sense of tain.
ed contour lines.
Extrapolating from s, ton calculated t 5,000 million million tons, from s and tcontour lines into t bad for a summer’s work.
Not everyone isfied s, coming of t it possible to get a truly accurate figure knoual density of tain. For convenience, ton tain y as ordinary stone, about 2.5 times t of er, but ttle more ted guess.
One improbable-seeming person ter ry parsonnamed Joe e and comparatively uation, Mic scientific teentury and muceemed for it.
Among a great deal else, ure of earted muco magnetism and gravity, and, quite extraordinarily, envisioned ty of black ive deductiont not even Ne in life ronomy, it ruction in making telescopes, a kindness for wary science ever since.
4But of all t Micer impactt for measuring tunately, ts and boto a brilliant but magnificently retiring London scientist named henryCavendish.
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Once o find an Austrian admirer, fres step. Excitedly trian began to babble out praise. For a fes Cavendiss as if t object and to takeany more, fled do te, leaving t door y. Even edter.
Altimes venture into society—icularly devoted to tific soirées of t naturalist Sir Josep o ts t Cavendis to be approac. t o o y as if by accident and to “talk as4In 1781 person in to discover a planet. ed to call it George,after tis ead it