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Long or Short Fractions for Great Natural and National Standards—Earth's Axis of Rotation

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IN the two last numbers of the American School of Mines Quarterly Journal the learned President Barnard of Columbia College, New York, has involuntarily opened a question of far wider interest than the particular one with which he set out. For on his page 120 there stands the following remarkable statement:—

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PIAZZI-SMYTH, C. Long or Short Fractions for Great Natural and National Standards—Earth's Axis of Rotation. Nature 30, 29–30 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030029a0

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