The Shape and Size of the Earth A Historical Journey from Homer to Artificial Satellites /

• Main Author: Boccaletti, Dino (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Geophysics.; Physics.; History.; Mathematics.; Philosophy and science.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Science.; Mathematics of Planet Earth.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Philosophy of Science.

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 t...

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. .