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...m the [[Royal Society]], it was conducted in the summer of 1774 around the Scottish [[Mountains and hills of Scotland|mountain]] of [[Schiehallion]], [[Perthsh A pair of French astronomers, [[Pierre Bouguer]] and [[Charles Marie de La Condamine]], were the first t ...

...ng the information. Modern dialling started in the tenth century when Arab astronomers made the great discovery that a gnomon parallel to the Earth's axis will pr ===Early Scottish method (1440) Dürer (1525) Rohr (1965) === ...

[[Sumer]]ian astronomers studied angle measure, using a division of circles into 360 degrees.<ref>{{ ...t'' as well as the works of [[Astronomy in medieval Islam|Persian and Arab astronomers]] such as [[Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī|Al Battani]] and [[Nas ...

...Gregorian year. Thus Pitatus's solution would have commended itself to the astronomers.{{sfnp|Swerdlow|1986}} ...ted the Gregorian calendar. For example, Scotland changed the start of the Scottish New Year to 1&nbsp;January in 1600 (this means that 1599 was a short year). ...

...land would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref name="Auto2J-56" /> [[Category:20th-century English astronomers]] ...