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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 95. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 95.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
The Pendulum Demonstration of the Earth's Rotation 129
Minor Notes:—The Day of the Month—Foreign English—Birds' Care for the Dead—Snake's Antipathy to Fire—Aldgate, London—Erroneous Scripture Quotations 130
QUERIES:—
The Lady Elizabeth Horner or Montgomery 131
Pope and Flatman, by W. Barton 132
Minor Queries:—Southampton Brasses—Borough-English—Passage in St. Bernard—Spenser's Faerie Queene—Broad Halfpenny Down—Roll Pedigree of Howard—Rev. John Paget, of Amsterdam—Visiting Cards—Duke de Berwick and Alva—The Earl of Derwentwater—"But very few have seen the Devil"—Aulus Gellius' Description of a Dimple—Forgotten Authors of the 17th Century 132
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:— Sundays, on what Days of the Month?—John Lilburne 134
REPLIES:—
"Lay of the Last Minstrel" 134
Meaning of "Prenzie," by Samuel Hickson 135
House of Yvery 136
Queen Brunéhaut 136
Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor 137
Cowper or Cooper 137
Replies to Minor Queries:—Voce Populi Halfpenny—Dog's Head in the Pot—"O wearisome Condition of Humanity"—Bunyan and the "Visions of Heaven and Hell"—Pope's Translations of Imitations of Horace—Prophecies of Nostradamus—Thread the Needle—Salmon Fishery in the Thames—Entomological Query—School of the Heart—Fortune, Infortune, Fort une—Ackey Trade—Curious Omen at Marriage 138
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 142
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 143
Notices to Correspondents 143
Advertisements 144
Notes.
THE PENDULUM DEMONSTRATION OF THE EARTH'S ROTATION.
If the propounders of this theory had from the first explained that they do not claim, for the plane of oscillation, an exemption from the general rotation of the earth, but only the difference of rotation due to the excess of velocity with which one extremity of the line of oscillation may be affected more than the other, it would have saved a world of fruitless conjecture and misunderstanding.
For myself I can say that it is only recently I have become satisfied that this is the real extent of the claim; and I confess that had I been aware of it sooner, I should have regarded the theory with greater respect than I have hitherto been disposed to do. Perhaps this avowal may render more acceptable the present note, in which I shall endeavour to make plain to others that which so long remained obscure to myself.
It is well known that the more we advance from the poles of the earth towards the equator, so much greater becomes the velocity with which the surface of the earth revolves—just as any spot near the circumference of a revolving wheel travels farther in a given time, and consequently swifter, than a spot near the centre of the same wheel: hence, London being nearer to the equator than Edinburgh, the former must rotate with greater velocity than the latter. Now if we imagine a pendulum suspended from such an altitude, and in such a position, that one extremity of its line of oscillation shall be supposed to reach to London and the other to Edinburgh; and if we imagine the ball of such