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A description will now be given of various experimental efforts to measure the mass M and mean density of the Earth, including the early work of Bouguer in Peru, the Cavendish success sixty years later, and more recent results.
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Bullen, K.E. (2002). Determination of the mean density of the Earth. In: The Earth’s Density. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5700-8_2
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