The Hunt for Earth Gravity A History of Gravity Measurement from Galileo to the 21st Century /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Milsom, John (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Earth.; Geology.; Geophysics.; History.; Popular Earth Science.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; History of Science.

The author of this history of mankind's increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth's gravity field (commonly known as 'little g' or just 'g') has been following in the footsteps of the pioneers, intermittently and with a variety of o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Some Notes on Units
• I. The Beginning
• II. The Making of a Map
• III. The Astronomers
• IV. The synthesis
• V. The figure of the Earth
• VI. The Attraction of Mountains
• VII. The Pitfalls of Pendulums
• VIII. Change of a change
• IX. The rise and fall of springs
• X. The challenges of motion
• XI. A Map of the World
• XII. Epilogue.