For Further Reading
- Ken Alder, The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (Free Press, 2002).
- Jeff Brooks and Satha Push, “The Cycloidal Pendulum,” American Mathematical Monthly 109:5 (May 2002), 463–5.
- John L. Greenberg, 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 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
- Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Walker, 1995).