Japanese Translation of “Notiz Ueber die Höhe des Fujinoyama” (E. Naumann, 1885)

Abstract

 Edmund Naumann (1854-1927) wrote “Notiz Ueber die Höhe des Fujinoyama” in 1885 and discussed the history of measuring the height of Mt. Fuji. In particular, he stressed the earliest measurement made in 1828 by Keisaku Ninomiya, a Japanese student of Siebold, who obtained a value of 3,793 m, which is approximately the same as present value. We translated the paper into Japanese because it is important to present scientific knowledge of Mt. Fuji in those days.