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Charles Hutton
Born
14 August 1737
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Died
27 January 1823(1823-01-27) (aged 85)
London, England, UK
Nationality
British
Awards
Copley Medal 1778
Scientific career
Fields
mathematics
Institutions
Royal Military Academy
Charles Hutton FRS FRSE LLD (14 August 1737 – 27 January 1823) was an English mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's measurements collected during the Schiehallion experiment.
CharlesHutton FRS FRSE LLD (14 August 1737 – 27 January 1823) was an English mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal...
first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by CharlesHutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774. It was still occasionally...
1979, pp. 96–97; Hutton 1989, pp. 56–57. Fraser 1979, pp. 98–128; Hutton 1989, pp. 53–69. Fraser 1979, p. 117. Falkus 1972, p. 54. Charles II of England...
Dina Merrill (born Nedenia Marjorie Hutton; December 29, 1923 – May 22, 2017) was an American actress. She had more than a hundred film and television...
that Newton died a virgin, and writers as diverse as mathematician CharlesHutton, economist John Maynard Keynes, and physicist Carl Sagan have commented...
Sir CharlesHutton Gregory KCMG (14 October 1817 – 10 January 1898) was an English civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers...
Dana James Hutton (May 31, 1934 – June 2, 1979), known as Jim Hutton, was an American actor in film and television best remembered for his role as Ellery...
Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg; February 26, 1921 – March 12, 2007) was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer...
Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 65 (0): 500–542. doi:10.1098/rstl.1775.0050. CharlesHutton used the observed value to determine the density of the Earth. Cornish...
thus indirectly of the gravitational constant. The result reported by CharlesHutton (1778) suggested a density of 4.5 g/cm3 (4+1/2 times the density of...
Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 – July 11, 1962) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co., once one of the largest financial...
James Hutton FRSE ( /ˈhʌtən/; 3 June O.S.[citation needed] 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist...
Charles William Hutton MLC (13 July 1826 – 1 February 1905) was a Member of the Cape Legislative Council and the country's Treasurer General during the...
band Culture Club, raised in Woolwich Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), general, born in Woolwich. CharlesHutton Gregory (1817–1888), civil engineer,...
Astronomer Royal. He was aided in the task by mathematician and surveyor CharlesHutton, and Reuben Burrow who was a mathematician of the Royal Greenwich Observatory...
1 (5th ed.). Edinburgh: A. Constable. 1823. pp. 248–249. See also: CharlesHutton; Georges Shaw; Richard Pearson (1809). The Philosophical Transactions...
(VFL). The son of Frederick Henry Hutton (1851-1894), and Arthena Hutton (1859-1944), née Coulton, Clifford CharlesHutton was born in Collingwood, Victoria...
Ronald Edmund Hutton CBE FSA FRHistS FLSW FBA (born 19 December 1953) is an English historian specialising in early modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian...
deflection effect. Nevil Maskelyne, CharlesHutton and Reuben Burrow performed the experiment, completed by 1776. Hutton (1778) reported that the mean density...
built on either side of where the wall once stood. From a map drawn by CharlesHutton in 1770, it appears that the ancient wall would have run parallel with...
The New international encyclopaedia. Dodd, Mead and company. p. 405. CharlesHutton Dowling (1872). A series of metric tables: in which the British standard...
proposed by CharlesHutton based on his analysis of the 1774 Schiehallion experiment. Cavendish's result of 5.4 g·cm−3, 23% bigger than Hutton's, is close...
invasion and occupation of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung lands. CharlesHutton took over the Campaspe run, located near the border of Dja Dja Wurrung...