A Bibliography of Geodesy

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 - 200 pages

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Page 383 - Géodésie ou Traité de la Figure de la Terre et de ses parties ; comprenant la Topographie, l'arpentage, le Nivellement, la Géomorphie Terrestre et Astronomique, la Construction des Cartes, la Navigation; Leçons données à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris, 3" édition, revue et corrigée sur les manuscripts inédits de M.
Page 472 - Description des opérations faites en Angleterre pour déterminer les positions respectives des observatoires de Greenwich et de Paris , traduit de l'anglais, 1791 , in-4°; 6* Essai expérimental et analytique sur les lois de ta dilatabilité des fluides élastiques, in-4°; 7...
Page 422 - Metrology, or an exposition of weights and measures, chiefly those of Great Britain and France, comprising tables of comparison, and views of various standards.
Page 443 - Histoire des mathématiques, dans laquelle on rend compte de leurs progrès depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours; où l'on expose le tableau et le développement des principales découvertes...
Page 403 - Principal Documents Relating to the Survey of the Coast of the United States since 1816, published by FR Hassler, Superintendent of the Survey.
Page 417 - Extension of the Triangulation of the Ordnance Survey into France and Belgium with the Measurement of an Arc of Parallel in Latitude 52° N. from Valentia in Ireland to Mount Kemmel in Belgium By Colonel Sir Henry James, RE, FRS, etc., Director of the Ordnance Survey. 4to vol. London. 1863. Tyneside Naturalists
Page 494 - A Manual of Surveying for India, detailing the mode of operations on the Trigonometrical, Topographical and Revenue Surveys of India. Compiled by Sir HL THUILLIER, KCSI, and Lieut.-Col.
Page 507 - Survey. An Account of the Measurement of the Lough Foyle Base in Ireland with its verification and extension by triangulation : together with the various methods of computation followed on the Ordnance Survey, and the Requisite Tables.
Page 507 - An account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London.
Page 318 - ON THE ALGEBRAICAL AND NUMERICAL THEORY OF ERRORS OF OBSERVATIONS AND THE COMBINATION OF OBSERVATIONS.