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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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

資料種別:: 図書
出版情報:: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995
形態:: xviii, 781 p. ; 24 cm
著者名:: Greenberg, John Leonard, 1945- <DA09361890>
ISBN:: 9780521385411 [0521385415]
書誌ID:: BA25970179

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Bibliography: p. 755-777
Includes index

主題:

Earth--Figure--History; Physical sciences--France--History--18th century

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英語

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Preface

Isaac NewtonÆs theory of a flattened Earth / 1：

The state of the problem of the EarthÆs shape in the 1720s: stalemate / 2：

The revival of geodesy in Paris (1733û1735) / 3：

Pierre Bouguer and the theory of homogeneous figures of equilibrium (1734) / 4：

Maupertuis: on the theory of the EarthÆs shape (1734) / 5：

Alexis-Claude ClairautÆs first theories of the EarthÆs shape / 6：

Interlude I: integral calculus (1690û1741) / 7：

Interlude II: the Paris academy contest on the tides (1740) / 8：

ClairautÆs mature theory of the EarthÆs shape (1741û1743): first substantial connections between the revival of mathematics in Paris and progress in mechanics there / 9：

Epilogue: FontaineÆs and ClairautÆs advances in the partial differential calculus revisited, or the virtues of interrelated developments in mathematics and science, and the fall of ænormalÆ science / 10：

Notes to chapters

Biography

Preface

Isaac NewtonÆs theory of a flattened Earth / 1：

The state of the problem of the EarthÆs shape in the 1720s: stalemate / 2：

The revival of geodesy in Paris (1733û1735) / 3：

Pierre Bouguer and the theory of homogeneous figures of equilibrium (1734) / 4：

Maupertuis: on the theory of the EarthÆs shape (1734) / 5：

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