speaking world, geodesy is divided into geomensuration ("Erdmessung" or "höhere Geodäsie"), which is concerned with measuring Earth on a global scale, and surveying...

surveying. In German, geodesy can refer to either higher geodesy (höhere Geodäsie or Erdmessung, literally "geomensuration") — concerned with measuring...

Pisa in 1900. He stayed in Pisa until his death in 1918. He wrote Höhere Geodäsie (Higher Geodesy) as well as many important works on the theory of errors...