The problem of the earth's shape from Newton to Clairaut : the rise of mathematical science in eighteenth-century Paris and the fall of "normal" science / John L. Greenberg.

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The problem of the earth's shape from Newton to Clairaut : the rise of mathematical science in eighteenth-century Paris and the fall of "normal" science / John L. Greenberg.