The life and work of Robert J. Adcock. I: The figure of the Earth

DOI10.1098/RSNR.2019.0027MaRDI QIDQ4957487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard J. Howarth, Wolfgang H. Müller

Publication date 8 September 2021

Published in Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0027

zbMATH Keywords

dynamicsfigure of the Earthphysical astronomypotential theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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