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Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, astronomer and geodesist /
La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth. He provided data to the great 18th-century mathematicians involved in understanding the complex gravitational effects that the heavenly bodi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Early life
- 2 The Cape
- 3 The shape of the earth
- 4 Notes about the Cape
- 5 Later years
- 6 Paradox resolved
- Appendix 1 Astronomical terms
- Appendix 2 Currency and length conversions
- Appendix 3 Note on the Journal Historique
- Appendix 4 Timeline
- Appendix 5 Sources and acknowledgements
- Appendix 6 Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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