Alexis Clairaut (redirect from Alexis Claude de Clairault)
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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