The Struve Geodetic Arc: the development of the triangulation, technical possibilities, and the initiation of the project
The determination of parameters of the Earth's ellipsoid is quite a difficult task that gives no rest to scientists to this day. One of the more famous works is the Struve Geodetic Arc, which was stretched from the Black Sea to the Arctic Ocean by employing the method of a triangulation network...
Published in: | History of Geo- and Space Sciences |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2019
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-269-2019 https://doaj.org/article/06287171c1c546b398c33cc1cd67a08a |