Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whakaarohia e Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal i te Royal Society i te tau 1772 kia ngana ano ki te whakamatau. I whakaaro ia ko te whakamātautau ka "whakahonore ki te iwi i hangaia ai" ka whakaarohia ko Whernside i Yorkshire, te Blencathra-Skiddaw massif i Cumberland ranei hei whaainga pai. I hangaia e te Royal Society te Komiti o te Whakaaetanga ki te whakaaro i te take, me te whakatu i a Maskelyne, Joseph Banks me Benjamin Franklin i roto i ona mema. I tukuna e te Komiti te kaitirotiro whetu me te kaitirotiro Charles Mason ki te kimi i tetahi maunga pai. I muri i te rapu roa i te raumati o te tau 1773, i kii a Mason ko te kaitono pai ko Schiehallion (i tuhituhia Schehallien), he 1,083 m (3,553 ft) te tihi kei waenga i Loch Tay me Loch Rannoch i nga whenua teitei o Scotland. I noho wehe te maunga mai i nga pukepuke tata, ka whakaiti i to raatau taumaha, me tana raupapa rawhiti-hauauru ka whakaiti i nga tatauranga. Ka taea e ōna hīkoi raki me te tonga te whakamātautau ki te noho tata ki tōna pokapū o te papatipu, e whakanui ana i te pānga o te whakaheke. He mea tupono, ko te tihi kei te tata tonu ki te pokapū whanui me te tawhiti o Scotland. Heoi, kaore a Mason i whakaae ki te whakahaere i te mahi i a ia ano mo te komihana i whakawhiwhia ki te kotahi guinea ia ra. Na reira ka hinga te mahi ki a Maskelyne, na te mea i whakawhiwhia ki a ia he wa poto mo ana mahi hei Astronomer Royal. I tautokona ia i roto i te mahi e te kaikauwhau me te kaitirotiro Charles Hutton me Reuben Burrow, he kaikauwhau o te Royal Greenwich Observatory. I whakawhiwhia he kaimahi kaimahi ki te hanga i nga tirohanga mo nga tohunga whetu, me te awhina i te rangahau. I tino rite rawa te roopu putaiao: ko ona taputapu aorangi he 12 inihi (30 cm) parahi parahi mai i te haerenga a Cook 1769 o te haerenga a Venus, he 10 ft (3.0 m) te waahanga o te tihi, me te kaiwhakahaere (karaka pendulum tika) hei whakarite i nga kitenga aorangi. I riro hoki i a rātau he theodolite me te mekameka a Gunter hei tirotiro i te...  Pātai: He aha te komiti i hangaia e te Royal Society e whakauru ana i nga tangata rongonui o te hitori penei i a Joseph Banks me Benjamin Franklin?
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