 In the Figure of the Earth no other person has accomplished so much as Clairaut: and the subject remains at present substantially as he left it, though the form is different. The splendid analysis which Laplace supplied adorned, but did not really alter,...  Geodesy - Page 60by Alexander Ross Clarke - 1880 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Catalogs, Booksellers' - 1918 - 334 pages
...whatever, to exist among the molecules. ' In the figure of the earth no other person has accomplished as much as Clairaut, and the subject remains at present...substantially as he left it, though the form is different.'— Isaac Todhíínter. 1806 CLAUDE (Georges) L'ÉLECTRICITÉ à la PORTÉE de TOUT LE MONDE : Courants... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1898 - 512 pages
...the successive strata of the earth. It embodies most of Clairaut's researches. Todhunter says that " in the figure of the earth no other person has accomplished...which started from the creative hands of Clairaut." In 1752 he gained a prize of the St. Petersburg Academy for his paper on Theorie de la Lune, in which... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1914 - 1180 pages
...Laplace called it "one of the most beautiful mathematical productions," and Todhunter has said of it: "In the figure of the earth no other person has accomplished...which started from the creative hands of Clairaut." The work has therefore been rightly included in Ostwald's editions of "classical works of the exact... | |
 | Alexis Claude Clairaut - Earth - 1913 - 172 pages
...ouvrage au rang des plus belies productions mathe'matiques« ; und Todhunter [aa O., Bd. I, S. 229] sagt: »In the Figure of the Earth no other person has accomplished...which started from the creative hands of Clairaut. « Von Lehrbüchern usw. über die Gestalt der Erde, Hydrostatik usw. führen wir an: Lagrange, »Me'canique... | |
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