Memoir on barometric instruments acting by compression
Subtitle: considered particularly in their application to the measurement of heights : including some new trigonometrical determinations
By: by James D. Forbes ; communicated by the author.
Series: Landmarks of science II
Publisher: William Blackwood; T. Cadell
Published: 1831
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Aneroid barometers.; Altitudes -- Measurement.
Notes: Plates at end of volume.

Includes bibliographical references.

Microfiche. New York, N.Y. Readex Microprint Corporation, [1985?] (Landmarks II)

In Edinburgh journal of science, n. s., v. 4 (1831), p. 91-122, 329-351.