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    calculations. After his return, he published his treatise Théorie de la figure de la terre (1743). In this work he promulgated the theorem, known as Clairaut's...
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    Pierre Bouguer (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    d'Optique, sur la gradation de la lumiere (Paris, France: Claude Jombert, 1729) pp. 16–22. Bouguer, Pierre (1749). La figure de la terre, déterminée par...
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  • microscopic forces is found in Alexis Clairaut's work Théorie de la figure de la Terre, published in Paris in 1743. Other scientists who have contributed...
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    entitled Traité de la grandeur et de la figure de la terre (1720). His two separate calculations for a degree of meridian arc were 57,097 toises de Paris (111...
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    History of the metre (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the figure of the Earth, whose crucial parameter was the flattening of the Earth ellipsoid. In his famous work Théorie de la figure de la terre, tirée...
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    scientific community. It was not until Clairaut wrote Théorie de la figure de la terre in 1743 that a proper answer was provided. In it, he promulgated...
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    Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (category Academic staff of the Collège de France)
    et figure de la terre, ouvrage augmenté de notes, de cartes (1912)(edited by Guillaume Bigourdan, Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, 1912; about the figure of...
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    "L'Académie Royale des Sciences et la Figure de la Terre" [The Royal Academy of Sciences and the Shape of the Earth]. La Vie des Sciences (in French). 3:...
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    Incas", in: Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres II (1746), Berlin 1748, S. 435–456 (PDF). La figure de la terre déterminée (Paris...
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    Metre (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    texte (1912). Grandeur et figure de la terre / J.-B.-J. Delambre; ouvrage augmenté de notes, de cartes et publié par les soins de G. Bigourdan,... pp. 202–203...
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