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    calculations. After his return, he published his treatise Théorie de la figure de la terre (1743). In this work he promulgated the theorem, known as Clairaut's...
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    Pierre Bouguer (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    d'Optique, sur la gradation de la lumiere (Paris, France: Claude Jombert, 1729) pp. 16–22. Bouguer, Pierre (1749). La figure de la terre, déterminée par...
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  • microscopic forces is found in Alexis Clairaut's work Théorie de la figure de la Terre, published in Paris in 1743. Other scientists who have contributed...
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    "L'Académie Royale des Sciences et la Figure de la Terre" [The Royal Academy of Sciences and the Shape of the Earth]. La Vie des Sciences (in French). 3:...
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    History of the metre (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the figure of the Earth, whose crucial parameter was the flattening of the Earth ellipsoid. In his famous work Théorie de la figure de la terre, tirée...
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    ISBN 978-2-85229-290-1. OCLC 36747385. d'Alembert, Jean Le Rond (1756). "Article Figure de la Terre, (Astron. Géog. Physiq. & Méch.), vol. VI (1756), p. 749b–761b". enccre...
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    scientific community. It was not until Clairaut wrote Théorie de la figure de la terre in 1743 that a proper answer was provided. In it, he promulgated...
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    entitled Traité de la grandeur et de la figure de la terre (1720). His two separate calculations for a degree of meridian arc were 57,097 toises de Paris (111...
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    Incas", in: Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres II (1746), Berlin 1748, S. 435–456 (PDF). La figure de la terre déterminée (Paris...
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    Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (category Academic staff of the Collège de France)
    et figure de la terre, ouvrage augmenté de notes, de cartes (1912)(edited by Guillaume Bigourdan, Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, 1912; about the figure of...
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    Claude Clairaut (1713–1765) Theorie de la Figure de la Terre tirée des Principes de l'Hydrostatique [Theory of the figure of the Earth based on principles...
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    Metre (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    texte (1912). Grandeur et figure de la terre / J.-B.-J. Delambre; ouvrage augmenté de notes, de cartes et publié par les soins de G. Bigourdan,... pp. 202–203...
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    Cohong in Guangzhou to trade. Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the earth is an oblate spheroid...
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    Lumières : Les Dialogues sur l’astronomie et la Lettre sur la figure de la Terre de César-François Cassini de Thury, Brepols (2020) Cassini projection Jonathan...
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    French Army (redirect from Armée de Terre)
    The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (French: Armée de terre, lit. 'Army of Land'), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the...
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  • Pierre Bouguer publishes La figure de la terre in Paris, describing some of the results of his work with Charles Marie de La Condamine on the French Geodesic...
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  • some significant events. Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the Earth is an oblate spheroid...
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  • 2022-12-13. Retrieved 2022-12-13. Jacques Cassini. (1720) De la grandeur et de la figure de la Terre Archived 2023-03-29 at the Wayback Machine On the size...
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  • [[:fr:Figure de la Terre et méridienne de Delambre et Méchain]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Figure de la...
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     63. ISBN 978-0-226-76747-5. Jacques Cassini. (1720) De la grandeur et de la figure de la Terre On the size and features of Earth, pages 14ff. Carnegie...
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    La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les Observations de Messieurs Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier & de M. l’Abbé Outhier, accompagnés de M...
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  • (d. 2023). Relación histórica del viaje a la América meridional, Jorge Juan and Ulloa, 1748 Figure de la terre determine, Bouguer, 1749 Mesure des trois...
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    les résultats dépendant de la figure de la Terre, p. 7 (Article VI [1]) Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1798), Méthode pour déterminer la longueur exacte du quart...
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    History of geodesy (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    "L'Académie royale des Sciences et la figure de la Terre". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série générale, la Vie des sciences. 3: 261. Bibcode:1986CRASG...
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    the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and two Îles des Saintes—as well as many uninhabited...
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  • Juhlaviikot). Stage director Erik Söderblom. 2013: Miika Hyytiäinen: La Figure de la Terre. Assistant Stage director and Stage Manager. Sophiensaele Berlin...
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  • 1738 in literature (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Treatise of Human Nature (dated 1739) Pierre Louis Maupertuis – Sur la figure de la terre Margareta Momma – Samtal emellan Argi Skugga och en obekant Fruentimbers...
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    histórica del viaje a la América meridional, Jorge Juan and Ulloa, 1748; Figure de la terre determine, Bouguer, 1749; Journal du voyage, La Condamine, 1751;...
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    ISSN 1627-0142 "ONF - la réserve naturelle de Petite Terre, un joyau écologique". www.onf.fr. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. "Ministère de la Culture -...
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  • 1730s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Cohong in Guangzhou to trade. Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the earth is an oblate spheroid...
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