Classical Geometry in the Service of Geodesy: Samuel Klingenstierna's Calculation of the Radius of Curvature of the Ellipse

DOI10.1111/j.1600-0498.1987.tb00673.xzbMath0615.01005OpenAlexW2076963714MaRDI QIDQ4723694

Osmo Kurola

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1987.tb00673.x

zbMATH Keywords

synthetic geometryradius of curvatureanalytical geometryfigure of earth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of geometry (51-03)

Cites Work

• Patterns of mathematical thought in the later seventeenth century
• Degrees of longitude and the earth's shape: The diffusion of a scientific idea in Paris in the 1730s

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