Greenberg, John Leonard, 1945-

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 / John L. Greenberg - Cambridge : The University Press, 1995 - xviii, 781 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

0521385415 : ? 60.00


Physical sciences--History--France--18th century
Earth--Figure--History

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