Degrees of longitude and the earth's shape: The diffusion of a scientific idea in Paris in the 1730s |
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Authors: | John L Greenberg |
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Institution: | Robert A. Millikan Memorial Library , California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California, 91125, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The paper deals with the confusion that has arisen in studying the revival of geodesy in Paris in the 1730s. The episode highlights the vast qualitative differences in science-reporting to be found in periodicals of the early eighteenth century, and the actual roles that certain better-known journals played in the genesis of what became a trademark for eighteenth-century Parisian science. |
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