Buku The Problem of the Earth's Shape From Newton to Clairaut


Kalau dapat buku ini bagus juga. Buku bertajuk 'The Problem of the Earth's Shape From Newton to Clairaut: The rise of mathematical science in eighteenth-century Paris and the fall of "normal" science.

Ini kandungan buku tersebut;

1 Isaac Newton's theory of a flattened earth (1687, 1713, 1726) 

2 The state of the problem of the earth's shape in the 1720s: Stalemate 

3 The revival of geodesy in Paris (1733-1735) 

4 Pierre Bouguer and the theory of homogeneous figures of equilibrium (1734) 

5 Maupertuis: On the theory of the earth's shape (1734) 

6 Alexis-Claude Clairaut's first theories of the earth's shape 

7 Interlude I: Integral calculus (1690-1741) 

8 Interlude II: The Paris Academy's contest on the tides (1740) 

9 Clairaut's mature theory of the earth's shape (1741-1743): First substantial connections between the revival of mathematics in Paris and progress in mechanics there 

10 Epilogue: Fontaine's and Clairaut's advances in the partial differential calculus revisited, or the virtues of interrelated developments in mathematics and science, and the fall of "normal" science.

Baca Alexis-Claude Clairaut. Encyclopedia - link.

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