✦ LIBER ✦
The Problem of the Earth's Shape from Newton to Clairaut: The Rise of Mathematical Science in Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Fall of “Normal” Science. By John L. Greenberg. Cambridge/New York (Cambridge University Press). 1995
✍ Scribed by Albert C. Lewis
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0315-0860
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✦ Synopsis
Sobel's recent bestseller Longitude [3] brought to a wide public the account of a major scientific problem of the 18th century, the accurate determination of time, and hence of longitude, while at sea. John Greenberg presents another 18th-century