 THE word Geoid is used to designate the actual figure of the surface of the waters of the earth. The sphere, the spheroid, the ellipsoid, the ovaloid, and many other geometrical figures may be, to a less or greater degree, sufficient practical approximations...  Elements of Precise Surveying and Geodesy - Page 242by Mansfield Merriman - 1899 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Engineering - 1880 - 546 pages
...feeble inquiries about the size and shape of the earth on which it is their destiny to dwell. V. — THE EARTH AS A GEOID. The word Geoid is used to designate...ovaloid, and many other geometrical figures may be, j to a less or greater degree, sufficient practical approximations to the geoidal or earthlike shape,... | |
 | Mansfield Merriman - Earth - 1881 - 104 pages
...Versetzung des Urdschwerpunktes durch Wasaermassen, Halle, 1878. CHAPTEE V. THE EAETH AS A GEOID. 49. THE word Geoid is used to designate the actual figure...such assumed form can be found to represent it with precision. The geoid, then, is an irregular figure peculiar to our planet; so irregular, indeed, that... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 792 pages
...is their destiny to dwell." The last chapter of Part I. treats of the earth as a geoid, which word is used to designate the actual figure of the surface of the waters of the oceans. This chapter is entirely speculative, and not always correct in its rendering of known facts.... | |
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