GALILEO, HUYGENS, AND NEWTON [304]

FIGURE OF THE EARTH [306]

EARLY TYPES OF PENDULUMS [309]

KATER’S CONVERTIBLE AND INVARIABLE PENDULUMS [314]

REPSOLD-BESSEL REVERSIBLE PENDULUM [320]

PEIRCE AND DEFFORGES INVARIABLE, REVERSIBLE PENDULUMS [327]

VON STERNECK AND MENDENHALL PENDULUMS [331]

ABSOLUTE VALUE OF GRAVITY AT POTSDAM [338]

APPLICATION OF GRAVITY SURVEYS [342]

SUMMARY [346]