Name: Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth (en Inglés)
Price: 57010.00 CLP
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Author: Edwin Danson
ISBN: 9780195384956

portada Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oup Usa

Autor

Edwin Danson

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0195384954

ISBN13

9780195384956

N° edición

Categorías

Cartografía, elaboración de mapas y proyecciones

Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth (en Inglés)

Edwin Danson (Autor) · Oup Usa · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth (en Inglés)"

At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World, master-surveyor and bestselling author Edwin Danson presents the stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through jungles, crossed the artic tundra, and braved the world's highest mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. Danson also recounts the extraordinary experiment, conducted on a desolate Scottish peak by Astromer Royal Neville Maskelyne, to understand the so-called "attraction of mountains," the curious capability mountians have to bend gravity, without which it would be impossible to accurately map Earth's surface. A spell-binding scientific adventure story, Weighing the World will intrigue anyone curious about the shape of our planet and how we have come to know it.