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The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy - Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 Michael Rand Hoare New edition
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The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy - Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
Michael Rand Hoare
Comprehensively explores the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy in all its several dimensions. This book shows how a largely neglected episode of European science, that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents a combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method.
200 pages, 27 b&w illustrations, 13 line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 28, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754650201 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Brain, Dr. Robert M. |
| Series Editor | Hamm, Dr. Ernst |
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