Excerpt from The Figure of the Earth: An Introduction to Geodesy IN 1879 the author delivered to the civil engineering students in Lehigh University some familiar talks on the size and shape of the earth, as introductory to a course' Of study in geodesy. In 1880 they were, after considerable extensions and improvements, published in an engineering periodical in the form of lectures. And now, in 1881, they have been subjected to another revision, and with many alterations and additions are here presented to the public. The ...
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Excerpt from The Figure of the Earth: An Introduction to Geodesy IN 1879 the author delivered to the civil engineering students in Lehigh University some familiar talks on the size and shape of the earth, as introductory to a course' Of study in geodesy. In 1880 they were, after considerable extensions and improvements, published in an engineering periodical in the form of lectures. And now, in 1881, they have been subjected to another revision, and with many alterations and additions are here presented to the public. The aim of the book is to give the history of scientific investigation and opinion concerning the figure of the earth, and at the same time to furnish an introduction to the science of geodesy that will prove interesting, suggestive, and valuable to engineering students and engineers. In order to meet the needs of the American student, the illustrative examples have been generally based upon the results of geodetic surveys executed in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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