A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth : From the Time of Newton to that of Laplace (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Newton; 2. Huygens; 3. Miscellaneous investigations up to the year 1720; 4. Maupertuis; 5. Stirling; 6. Clairaut; 7. Arc of the meridian measured in Lapland; 8. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1721 and 1740; 9. Maclaurin; 10. Thomas Simpson; 11. Clairaut; 12. Arc of the meridian measured in Peru; 13. D'Alembert; 14. Boscovich and Stay; 15. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1741 and 1760; 16. D'Alembert; 17. Frisi; 18. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1761 and 1780.