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
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521130999
ISBN-13
9780521130998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 11th, 2010
Print length
800 Pages
Weight
1,112 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 17.50 x 4.20 cms
Product Classification:
History of sciencePhysics
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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.
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