Author: Sir George EverestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arc measures
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India
Author: Sir George EverestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arc measures
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Narrative of the Burmeses War, in 1824-25
Author: Horace Hayman WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
East-India Register and Army List
Author: The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth
Author: Michael Rand HoarePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351883305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit, their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, and reputations of the living and the dead stood to be elevated or destroyed. In particular the two expeditions hoped to prove the correctness of Isaac Newton's prediction that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but flattened at the poles. In this study, the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy is for the first time comprehensively explored in all its several dimensions. It shows how a largely neglected episode of European science, that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents an almost unique combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method. It also details the suffering of the two teams of scientists in very different extremes of climate, whose sacrifices for the sake of knowledge rather than colonial gain, caught the imagination of the literary world of the time.
The India Office List
Author: A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Reports, Field Books, Memoirs, Maps, Etc., of the Indian Surveys
Author: Great Britain. India OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: Narrative of the Burmese War, in 1824-25 ...
Author: Horace Hayman WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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