Clairaut a C (4 results)

PF. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. ---- Deuxième édition ---- P., Courcier, 1808, un volume in 8 relié en pleine veau marbré, dos orné de fers dorés, étiquette de titre rouge (reliure de l'époque), (petit manque à l'étiquette de titre, un mors légèrement fendu), (1), 40pp., 308pp., figures dans le texte ---- "A scientific classic. Théorie de la figure de la terre was to some degree the theoretical epilogue to the LAPLAND EXPEDITION and to the series of polemics on the earth's shape - an oblate ellipsoid, caccording to Newton and Huygens, and a prolate ellipsoid, according to the Cassinis. Newton had merely outlined a proof ; and Maclaurin, in his work on tides had set forth a general principle of hydrostatics that allowed this proof to be improved upon. CLAIRAUT gave this principle an aspect that he felt was more general. He drew from it an analytical theory that since George Green has been called the theory of potential. It allowed him to study the shape of the stars in more general cases than those examined by his predecessors. CLAIRAUT no longer assumed that the fluid composing a star was homologeneous and he considered various possible laws of gravitation. It was also in this work, considered a scientific classic, that the formula named for CLAIRAUT, expressing the earth's gravity as a function of latitude is found. It was through the various works submitted for the 1740 competition on the theory of tides and THIS WORK OF CLAIRAUT'S, that Newton's theory of gravitation finaly won acceptance in French scientific circles". (DSB III p. 282)**8229/L2.…

Nicola Zanichelli 1928 sewed, 240 pp. Good copy. (code SC-92).