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Pages 289-295 | Published online: 23 Aug 2006

  • Greenberg , John L. 1983 . Geodesy in Paris in the 1730s and the Paduan Connection . Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences , 13 : 239 – 260 . and ‘Degrees of Longitude and the Earth's Shape: The Diffusion of a Scientific Idea in Paris in the 1730s’, Annals of Science, 41 (1984), 151–8
  • Cassidy , D.C. 1979 . “ Gustav Hertz, Hans Geiger und das Physikalische Institut der Technischen Hochschule Berlin in den Jahren 1933 bis 1945 ” . In Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft , Edited by: Rürup , Reinhard . 373 – 387 . Heidelberg New York : Springer .
  • Cassidy , D.C. 1979 . “ Gustav Hertz, Hans Geiger und das Physikalische Institut der Technischen Hochschule Berlin in den Jahren 1933 bis 1945 ” . In Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft , Edited by: Rürup , Reinhard . 373 – 387 . Heidelberg New York : Springer .
  • Lafuente , Antonio and Peset , José L. 1984 . La question de la figure de la terre. L'agonie d'un débat scientifique au XVIIIe siecle . Revue d'Histoire des Sciences , 37 : 235 – 254 . (p. 239)
  • See Greenberg John L. Geodesy in Paris in the 1730s and the Paduan Connection Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 1983 13 239 260
  • Aiton , E.J. 1972 . The Vortex Theory of Planetary Motions 219 – 226 . London
  • Lafuente and Peset . 1984 . La question de la figure de la terre. L'agonie d'un débat scientifique au XVIIIe siecle . Revue d'Histoire des Sciences , 37 : 250 – 250 .
  • See Greenberg John L. Geodesy in Paris in the 1730s and the Paduan Connection Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 1983 13 239 260
  • The classic example of such a history is Todhunter Isaac A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth London 1873 New York, 1962
  • Schofield , Robert E. 1978 . An Evolutionary Taxonomy of Eighteenth-Century Newtonianisms . Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture , 7 : 175 – 192 . (pp. 180–3)
  • Lafuente and Peset . 1984 . La question de la figure de la terre. L'agonie d'un débat scientifique au XVIIIe siècle . Revue d'Histoire des Sciences , 37 : 252 – 253 .
  • The book's main conclusions are recapitulated in Lafuente Peset La question de la figure de la terre. L'agonie d'un débat scientifique au XVIIIe siècle Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 1984 37 235 235

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