Article ID: CBB000039797

“Aplatisseur du monde et de Cassini”: Maupertuis, precision measurement, and the shape of the Earth in the 1730s (1993)

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Authors & Contributors
Terrall, Mary
Hecht, Hartmut
Downing, Lisa
Zinsser, Judith P.
Zammito, John H.
Wolfe, Charles T.
Concepts
Mechanics
Variational principles
Embryology
Science
Properties of matter
Teachers
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Places
France
Institutions
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
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