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" Scienceby John L. Greenberg

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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

✍ Albert C. Lewis 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 140 KB

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