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Re: Oblate or Prolate...?
From: Dale Lichtblau
Date: 2020 Jul 28, 13:45 -0700
From: Dale Lichtblau
Date: 2020 Jul 28, 13:45 -0700
The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment, Mary Terrall, 2002, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-79361-3 (paperback).
A rigorous and exhaustive account.
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Dale/KJ4VTS
38° 56’ N
77° 19’ W
74° 58’ W (Paris Prime)
