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Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Almost as New/No Dust Jacket. Black tooled blue cloth, illustrated in black & white. - In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit, their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, and reputations of the…
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The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy Capa dura - 2005
por Michael Rand Hoare
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In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris for what might well be termed the ends of the Earth.
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- Título The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy
- Autor Michael Rand Hoare
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição New edition
- Páginas 288
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Routledge
- Data de publicação December 30, 2005
- Ilustrado Sim
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780754650201 / 0754650200
- Library of Congress subjects Geodesy - History
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2004026903
- Dewey Decimal Code 526.109
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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)
por (Michael Rand) Hoare
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- Capa dura
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780754650201 / 0754650200
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