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The Problem of the Earth's Shape from Newton to Clairaut: The Rise of Mathematical Science in Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Fall of 'Normal' Science John L. Greenberg
The Problem of the Earth's Shape from Newton to Clairaut: The Rise of Mathematical Science in Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Fall of 'Normal' Science
John L. Greenberg
This book investigates, through the particular problem of the question of the Earth's shape, the spread of Newtonian physics in the French scientific community during the eighteenth century. Highly technical, the book lays out a series of mathematical discoveries only rarely analysed by modern Western scholars.
800 pages, 113 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 28, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521385411 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 800 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 41 mm · 1.19 kg |
| Language | English |