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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Shape and Size of the Earth
    sub title: A Historical Journey from Homer to Artificial Satellites
  name:
    name part: Boccaletti, Dino.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 193 p. 17 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period. The origins of the notion of the sphericity of the Earth are explained, dating back to Eratosthenes and beyond, and detailed attention is paid to the struggle to establish key discoveries as part of the cultural heritage of humanity. In this context, the roles played by the Catholic Church and the philosophers of the Middle Ages are scrutinized. Later contributions by such luminaries as Richer, Newton, Clairaut, Maupertuis, and Delambre are thoroughly reviewed, with exploration of the importance of mathematics in their geodetic enterprises. The culmination of progress in scientific research is the recognition that the reference figure is not a sphere but rather a geoid and that the earth's shape is oblate. Today, satellite geodesy permits the solution of geodetic problems by means of precise measurements. Narrating this fascinating story from the very beginning not only casts light on our emerging understanding of the figure of the Earth but also offers profound insights into the broader evolution of human thought.
  table of contents: 1 The Graeco-Roman World -- 2 The Roman world from the end of the republic to the end of the empire -- 3 The Middle Ages -- 4 From the age of the great transoceanic discoveries to the new measurements of the Earth .90 -- 5 The Figure and the size of the Earth in the XVIII Century -- 6 From the French Revolution to the artificial Satellites -- Epilogue -- The concept of Geoid -- The mathematical Model -- The satellitar Geodesy. .
  note: by Dino Boccaletti.
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics of Planet Earth
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  classification: QC801-809
  classification: 550
  classification: 526.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319905938
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90593-8
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    record creation date: 180713
    record change date: 20191025202020.0
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