La question de la figure de la Terre. L'agonie d'un débat scientifique au XVIIIe siècle

• Main Authors: Lafuente, Antonio, Peset, José Luis
• Other Authors: Lafuente, Antonio 0000-0001-7466-772X, Peset, José Luis 0000-0001-6295-4545
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Armand Colin 2009
• Subjects: geo; hist; Géodésie; Quito; Laponie; Lapland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/15666; http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rhs_0151-4105_1984_num_37_3_2038

20 pags, 2 tabs. Peer reviewed [EN] The aim of this paper is to point out the significative importance of the astronomical and geodesical observations made during the first half of the eighteenth century, observations directed to solve the polemic question of the Earth shape. After analyzing the ter...