Weighing the world : the quest to measure the Earth / / Edwin Danson
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| Autore: |
Danson Edwin <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Weighing the world : the quest to measure the Earth / / Edwin Danson
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | x, 289 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 526/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - Europe - History - 18th century |
| Industrial revolution - Europe - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Earth (Planet) Figure Measurement |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- 1 I Cannot Be Wrong -- 2 The Titan King -- 3 A Calm and Gentle Character -- 4 The Galileo of France -- 5 Extreme Science -- 6 Robberies and Depredations -- 7 A Magnificent Military Sketch -- 8 Persons Well Versed -- 9 Very Expert in His Business -- 10 A Passage with My Horse -- 11 Frankenstein and Other Experiments -- 12 A Remarkable Hill -- 13 Important Observations -- 14 So Great a Noise -- 15 The Attraction of Mountains -- 16 The Best of the Position -- 17 Distinguished Merit -- 18 Late by a Whole Year -- 19 Geodetic Experiments -- 20 I Know It Will Answer -- 21 Offering Violence to Nature -- 22 A Meritorious Foreigner -- 23 Men Worthy of Confidence -- 24 Irregularities We Have Discovered -- Appendix: Explanations and Definitions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | At the start of the 18th century, no one knew with any certainty the shape of the earth. Was our planet a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Newton proposed? Master-surveyor and bestselling author Edwin Danson here presents the stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through jungles, crossed the artic tundra, and braved the world's highest mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. A spell-binding scientific adventure story, Weighing the World will intrigue anyone curious about the shape of our planet and how we have come to know it. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Weighing the world |
| ISBN: | 9780199725090 |
| 0199725098 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910969533003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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