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Mapping out the origins of contour lines
It was 250 years ago that Nevil Maskelyne, the astronomer royal, stood on Schiehallion, a lonely mountain in Perthshire, in a quest to find out how much the Earth weighed. It was called the Schiehallion experiment and Maskelyne first needed…
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