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messiahmaster
Jul21-04, 02:55 PM
I know that the mass of the Earth is 5.98 x 10 to the 24th kg.
The problem I face is to devise a strategy for finding the mass of the Earth using only the equations and equipment that were available to scientist in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Can anyone help me?