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1 Described in a footnote by C M Linton, From Eudoxus to Einstein, a history of mathematical astronomy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004, 249. See also S L Chapin, ‘The shape of the earth,’ in R Taton and C Wilson (eds.), Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics, II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995, and J W Olmsted, ‘The scientific expedition of Jean Richer to Cayenne (1672–1673), Isis, 34 (1942–43), 117–128.
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