Bibliography

[1] Taken from Arago Kilogram, Room 3, Weights and Measures, NIST Virtual Museum. Link

[2] Taken from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

[3] Taken from the NIST website. Link

[4] Nobili, Anna M. (March 1986). "The real value of Mercury's perihelion advance". Nature. 320 (6057): 39–41. Link

[5] Dyson, F.W.; Eddington, A.S. & Davidson, C.R. (1920), "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919", Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 220 (571–581): 291–333. Link

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Index

Title Page


[1]
2, Old Definitions of the Kilogram
[2]
3, Potential Definitions
[3]
4, Current Definition