Buku The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth


Buku 'The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy' oleh Michael Hoare.

Kandungan:

A dispute in the making.

Prelude to an odyssey; Some technicalities.

The Lapland expedition; The Peru expedition.

Meanwhile in Paris; Death and deliverance.

A grievous aftermath; Once more unto the meridian.

A modern postcript.

Mathematical formulae; Modern values of geodetic units.

Folder: Dell Dr Jaw.

Petr Vanicek

Harga GBP40

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